VerifiedHint: Tomato is a noun that ends with the letter ‘o’.
Complete answer:
In its most basic sense, “singular” is something that is single. It is a single item as opposed to many. In contrast to this, “plural” stands for many. You could say that it is the opposite of singular as they are two contrary concepts. There are many ways of making a noun plural. The most basic way is to add a ‘s’ to the end of the word.
e.g. horse-horses
lake-lakes
cake-cakes
book- books
The method of making a word plural depends on its endings. Words that end with ‘ife’ like life and knife change into lives and knives. Similarly, words that end with ‘ss’ like dress and loss change into dresses and losses.
What about words that end with ‘o’? We form the plural of such nouns not by adding ‘s’ but by adding ‘es’. Thus, the word “hero” changes into “heroes” while “potato” changes into “potatoes”.
Now, let us consider our given question. Tomato is a noun that ends with ‘o’. As we have seen before, such words can be changed into their plural form by adding ‘es’. Hence, our answer is Option A. tomatoes.
Note: The other given options are wrong because their spellings are wrong, and they do not end with the appropriate ending of ‘es’.
