Class 2 English Grammar Chapter 2 Singular and Plural and Assignments.

Updated on June 16, 2023
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Class 2 English Grammar Chapter 2 Singular and Plural topic Explanation with worksheet exercises and assignments for CBSE and State Board academic session 2024-25. All the contents are updated according to latest curriculum issued by CBSE. Study Material is now available in online as well as offline format free to use or download.

English Grammar for Class 2 Learn About Singular and Plural

Grade 2 English Grammar Topic – Singular and Plural

A word is said to be singular when it stands for one person, place, animal, bird, or thing whereas a word is said to be plural when it stands for more than one person, place, animal, bird or things. Learn here about how to change singular to plural or the way of making plural words of given singular words.

Singular and plural are quite important topic for further classes also. This is the topic which is frequently found in reading any lesson of any subject. Practice questions for revision are also given here in the form of assignments.

Singular	Plural
a pen	pens
an owl	owls
a bat	bats
a toy	toys
a girl	girls
a ball	balls

We write ‘a’ or ‘an’ before singular.
We do not write ‘a’ or ‘an’ before plural nouns.
When we change a noun from the singular to the plural, we add the letter ‘s’ to the singular noun.

Singural to Plural

1. Write the plural forms of given nouns:
pigeon
Egg
Rose
Ship
Cow
Tree

Answers:
pigeons
Eggs
Roses
Ships
Cows
Trees

2. Add ‘s’ to the following nouns and make them plural:

Balloon
Kite
Cap
Carrot
Umbrella
Ball

Balloons
Kites
caps
Carrots
Umbrellas
Balls

Formation of Plural from Singular

1. We have learnt in the earlier class that we often add ‘s’ or ‘es’ to the singular nouns to make their plural.

Singlar	Plural
One boy	Four boys
One car	Three cars
One Bench	Five Benches
One dog	Seven dogs
One student	Twenty Students

Nouns, which are one in number, are called Singular Nouns.
Nouns, which are many in number, are called Plural Nouns.

2. In some nouns, we change vowels or add other letters to the singular nouns to make their plural.

Singular	Plural
One man	four men
one woman	four women
one umbrella	five umbrellas
one child	three children
one Ox	two oxen

3. There are a few nouns which do not have their plural form: (water, milk, furniture, hair)
We say ‘a glass of milk/water or two glasses of milk/water, ‘a piece of paper/furniture or pieces of paper/furniture’. We say so because they are uncountable nouns.

4. In nouns ending with ‘y’, we replace ‘y’ and add ‘ies’ to the singular nouns to make their plural.

Singular	Plural
One soldier	Two soldiers
One baby	Tree babies
One lady	Five ladies
One story	many stories
One party	many parties
One city	many cities
One fly	many flies

5. In nouns ending with ‘f’ or ‘fe’, we replace ‘f’ or ‘fe’ and add ‘ves’ to the singular nouns to make their plural.

Singular	Plural
One knife	Seven knives
One wife	Three wives
One leaf	Ten leaves
One thief	many thieves
One leaf	many leaves
One life	many lives
One shelf	many shelves
One wolf	many wolves