Most of us know what singular and plural nouns are. But how much do we know about them? Are we confident and comfortable enough to answer questions related to them?
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#1. Which of these is a plural noun?
Explanation: ‘Women’ is a plural form of the singular noun ‘woman’. The other two words are singular nouns and take a singular verb in a sentence.
#2. Which of these is a plural noun?
Explanation: ‘Teeth’ is a plural form of the singular noun ‘tooth’. The other two words are singular nouns. The word ‘measles’ refers to a desease, and ‘mess’, refers to something being dirty.
#3. Which of these is a plural noun?
Explanation: ‘People’ is a plural form of the singular noun ‘person’. The other two words are singular nouns. The plural of ‘dress’ is ‘dresses’, and ‘failure’ is ‘failures’.
#4. Which of these is a plural noun?
Explanation: ‘Deer’ is a word that spells the same in both its singular and plural forms. The other two words ‘cherry’ and ‘guess’ are singular nouns.
#5. Which of these is a singular noun?
Explanation: ‘Jesus’ is a singular noun. It is a proper name.
#6. Which of these is a singular noun?
Explanation: ‘Guess’ is one of the words that can function as both a noun and a verb. When working as a noun, it means ‘an answer expressing an opinion rather than pure understanding and clarity and it also lacks evidence’.
#7. Which of these is a singular noun?
Explanation: The plural form of ‘goddess‘ is ‘godessess‘. The other two are plural nouns. ‘Children‘ is a plural noun of ‘child‘, and ‘fungi‘ is a plural form of the noun ‘fungus‘.
#8. Which of these is a singular noun?
Explanation: ‘Politics’ is an abstract noun. It refers to a concept and is considered singular. The other two words are plural: Pants (plural of ‘pant’) and values (plural of ‘value’).
#9. What type of a noun is ‘MILK’?
Explanation: ‘Milk’ is an uncountable noun. It refers to a liquid that is uncountable. All uncountable nouns are considered singular in English.
#10. What type of a noun is ‘PEERS’?
Explanation: It is a plural form of the noun ‘peer’. It refers to people who are of your same age or around the same age and have equal social positions (qualities, skills, positions, etc.).
#11. What type of a noun is ‘WEAKNESS’?
Explanation: It refers to the state of being weak.
#12. What type of a noun is ‘CRISIS’?
Explanation: It refers to a time of great difficulty, problem, and suffering. Its plural form is ‘crises’.
#13. What type of a noun is ‘POLICE’?
Explanation: Police is considered a plural noun as it refers to a government body of people empowered by a state/city to enforce the law and rules and regulations introduced by the government.
#14. “The man in the black suit is a one of my people that live in my neighborhood and runs a business.” How many singular nouns are there in the sentence?
Explanation: The four singular nouns in the sentence are: man, suit, neighborhood, and business. People is a plural noun.
#15. “Any of us who has worked with a multi-national company can help Jon get a good job.” How many plural nouns are there in the sentence?
Explanation: There are no plural nouns in the sentence. The sentence has only three nouns, and they all are singular: company, Jon, and job.
#16. What is a singular noun?
#17. What is a plural noun?
#18. Which of these is not true about a singular noun?
Explanation: Most singular nouns don’t end with the letter ‘s’. However, it is not true that a singular noun can’t end with ‘s’.
Examples: kiss, dress, business, etc.
#19. Which of these is not true about a plural noun?
Explanation: Most plural nouns don’t end with ‘s’ or ‘es’. However, they can also end without these letters.
Examples: men, women, feet, etc.
#20. Select the singular noun?
Explanation: It is a singular noun. The plural form of ‘house’ is ‘houses’.
#21. Select the plural noun?
Explanation: It is a plural noun. The plural form of ‘feet’ is ‘foot’.
#22. Select the singular noun?
Explanation: It is a singular noun. The plural form of ‘gas’ is ‘gases’.
#23. Select the plural noun?
Explanation: It is one of the nouns that have the same singular and plural form.
#24. What noun is ‘spokesmen?
Explanation: The singular form of the same is ‘spokesman’.
#25. What is the plural of the noun ‘sheep’?
Explanation: It is one of the nouns that have the same singular and plural forms.
#26. What is the plural of the noun ‘deer’?
Explanation: It is one of the nouns that have the same singular and plural forms.
#27. What is the plural of the noun ‘syllabus’?
#28. What is the plural of the noun ‘father-in-law’?
#29. What is the plural of the noun ‘brother-in-law’?
#30. What is the singular of the noun ‘zebra’?
Explanation: ‘Zebra’ is one of the nouns that have the same singular and plural forms.
#31. What is noun ‘theses’?
Explanation: The singular form of the noun ‘theses’ is ‘thesis’.
#32. What is noun ‘feedback’?
Explanation: It does not have a plural form as it refers to an abstract idea.
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