One and Many

Nouns that name only one thing are called singular. Example: girl, boy, apple, mango, cup etc. 

Nouns that name more than one thing are called plural. Example: boxes, classes, dogs, shops etc.

Rules that we follow to change singular into plural are:

Rule 1- We usually add ‘s’ to the singular noun to form plural noun.

For example: cup + ‘s’ = cups

Let’s see some more examples.

Rule 2 -  We add ‘es’ to singular nouns ending in ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘x’, ‘ch’ or ‘sh’ to form plural nouns.

For example: box + ‘es’ = boxes

Let’s see some more examples.

Q. Fill in the blanks with correct form of noun from the option given.

 1. My friend bought a new car. (car/cars)

 2. Diya has a pretty doll. (doll/dolls)

 3. A week has seven days. (day/days)

 4. A crayon box has twelve colors. (color/colors)

 5. How many months are in a year? (month/months)

 6. Stars are twinkling in the sky. (star/stars)

 7. She ate five apples. (apple/apples)

 8. The bird is sitting on the branch. (bird/birds)

 9. Ravi has five balls. (ball/balls)

10. The pen is in the pencil box. (pen/pens)