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