Question

Find the plural form of the noun: stomach
A) Stomaches
B) Stomachs
C) Stomache
D) None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: Plural means more than one. In order to make a noun plural, it is usually only necessary to add ‘S or ES’ at the end of the singular word. For example: apples, cats, dogs, tables, chairs, notebooks, pens and etc.

Complete answer:
Let us look into the given options:
Option A) Stomaches – is an incorrect answer because ‘stomaches’ is not a word. Therefore, the plural of stomach is not ‘stomaches’. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) Stomachs – is the correct word because stomach is a singular word and the plural of stomach is ‘stomachs’ Words ending in ‘CH’ usually take ‘ES’ in the plural form. However, the word stomach is an exception to this pattern. So, instead of ‘es’ it will take ‘s’ at the end of the word. So, this is the correct answer.
Option C) Stomache – is an incorrect answer because there is no such word as ‘stomache’. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option D) None of the above – is an incorrect option because the correct answer lies in option B. So, we will exclude this option as this is an incorrect answer.

Stomach (singular) – Stomachs (Plural)

Thus the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: Singular means only one and plural means more than one. To make a singular into plural it is very important to put ‘S or ES’ at the end of the singular words.
Rule of converting singular into plural are:
Rule 1: To make the regular noun plural add ‘S’ to the end of the word.
Rule 2: If the singular nouns end with the words like – s, ss, sh, ch, z add ‘ES’ to the end of the singular word to make it plural.
There is a condition like in this question stomach ends with CH but to make it plural we will be adding ‘S’ at the end of this word. So, the plural form of stomach is stomachs.