This set of English Grammar Exercises (MCQs) focuses on “Noun Number – Set 2”.
1. Choose the correct sentence.
a) Ram watched all the serieses yesterday.
b) The mooses ran across the street.
c) We saw octopodes in the aquarium.
d) The professor explained a lot of phenomenons about the topic.
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Explanation: “Octopodes” is the plural form of the singular noun “octopus”. The rest of the options are incorrect. Series, moose, and phenomena are the correct plural forms to be used for the remaining sentences.
2. Choose the correct option.
The plural form of the noun coccyx is coccyxes.
a) True
b) False
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Explanation: The plural form of the noun “coccyx” is not “coccyxes”. The plural form of the singular noun “coccyx” is “coccyges”.
3. Choose the correct option.
a) Coat-of-mail – coat-of-mails
b) Commander-in-chief – commander-in-chiefs
c) Son-in-law – son-in-laws
d) Passer-by – passers-by
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Explanation: Plural forms of compounds nouns are formed by the addition of “-s” to the principal word. The principal word of the compound noun passer-by is “passer”. Therefore, the plural form of the compound singular noun passer-by passers-by. The rest of the options are incorrect.
4. Choose the wrong option.
a) Bandit – banditti
b) Madame – mesdames
c) Seraph – seraphim
d) Monsieur – monsieurs
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Explanation: The word “monsieurs” is the wrong plural form of the singular noun “monsieur”. The correct plural for of the singular noun “monsieur” is “messieurs”. The rest of the options are correct.
5. Choose the correct option.
a) Dynamo – dynamoes
b) Canto – cantos
c) Quarto – quartoes
d) Echo – echos
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Explanation: “Cantos” is the correct plural form of the singular noun “canto”. The rest of the options are incorrect. The correct plural forms of the singular nouns dynamo, quarto and echo are dynamos, quartos and echoes respectively.
6. Choose the noun that is a plural word with no singular form.
a) Doldrums
b) Roofs
c) Tableaux
d) Diagnoses
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Explanation: “Doldrums” is a noun that is a plural word with no singular form. The rest of the plural nouns in the given choices have singular forms. The singular forms of roofs, tableaux and diagnoses are roof, tableau and diagnosis respectively.
7. Choose the noun that is spelled the same in both singular and plural form.
a) Amends
b) Smithereens
c) Pliers
d) Premises
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Explanation: “Premises” is a noun that is spelled the same in both singular and plural form. Amends, smithereens and pliers are words that are plural with no singular form.
8. Choose the incorrect option.
a) The space agency has created many types of aircrafts
b) The bread is infested with fungi
c) The sheep are white
d) The students calculated the radiuses of the circles
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Explanation: The plural form of the singular noun “aircraft” is “aircraft”. Therefore, the correct sentence is “The space agency has created many types of aircraft”. The rest of the options are correct.
9. Fill in the blanks.
We cooked all the ______
a) Trouts
b) Fishes
c) Shrimp
d) Chickens
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Explanation: The singular nouns trout, fish, shrimp and chicken are irregular nouns that don’t change when they are converted into plural form. Therefore “shrimp” is the correct plural noun that should be used in the given sentence. The rest of the options are incorrect.
10. Choose the correct option.
a) Potato – potatos
b) Veto – vetos
c) Torpedo – torpedoes
d) Piano – pianos
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Explanation: “Torpedoes” is the correct plural form of the singular noun “torpedo”. The rest of the options are incorrect. The plural forms of the singular nouns potato, veto and piano are potatoes, vetoes and pianos respectively.
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