Paper Boat Activity - 9

Read the following sentences.

1. Anna bent a little and launched a paper boat.
2. A fat boy pounced on one of her boats.
3. The story ‘Paper Boats’ is a fairy tale.
4. The fairies of sleep are sailing in the boats.

Look at the underlined words. The word in the second sentence is the plural of the word in the first sentence. In the first set of sentences, ‘s’ is added to form the plural. But in the second set, ‘y’ is replaced with ‘ies’ to form the plural.
Look at the following words and write the plural forms of it. Mention the letters that you added to form its plural.

WORD	PLURAL	LETTERS ADDED
Tree	Trees	s
Parent	Parents	s
Child	Children	ren
Boy	Boys	s
Sky	Skies	ies
Flower	Flowers	s
Eye	Eyes	s
Story	Stories	ies
Butterfly	Butterflies	ies
Banana	Bananas	s
Mango	Mangoes	es
Cherry	Cherries	ies
Bunch	Bunches	es

A SINGULAR NOUN:-  Names one person, place, thing etc.
A PLURAL NOUN :- Names more than one person, one place, one thing etc.
Rules for making plural nouns depend on the spelling and pronunciation.
Usually ' s ' is added to a singular noun to make it plural.
Examples: dog - dogs, brother- brothers, car-cars
' es ' is added for words ending in 'o', 'x', 'ch' or 'sh'
Examples: box - boxes, tomato - tomatoes, six – sixes, potato – potatoes, bush – bushes, church – churches
There are a few nouns that form their plural by adding ' en ' to the singular.
Examples: ox- oxen
Some nouns are used only in the plural.
Examples: scissors, tongs, spectacles
Some nouns have same form for both singular and plural nouns.
Examples: sheep - sheep, deer-deer, score- score