In the English language, you usually learn about the different forms of singular and irregular verbs. But in certain cases it is not enough to just understand this verb form, Just because you don’t follow typical grammar rules.
Indicating Singular vs Plural Verbs
While we are learning about the different forms of singular and plural verbs it would be best and easy in understanding. When you look at the singular and plural verbs, you could notice that the nouns and pronouns are generally linked with the sentences and identified as singular and plural as well.
What Do You Mean By Singular Verb?
It is basically a verb that shows what has been done, being done or will be done. The singular verbs are used with the singular subject of the sentence. The singular subject can be made up of a person, place, thing or sometimes idea.
| Plural | Singular | Past Tense | Past Participle |
| catches | catch | caught | caught |
| flies | fly | flew | flown |
| knows | know | knew | known |
| pays | pay | paid | paid |
| springs | spring | sprang | sprung |
| writes | write | wrote | written |
Let’s now discuss four important rules of forming a plural verb from singular verb.
1. Adding ‘s’ to the Singular Verbs:
In English grammar rule, when the sentence is using singular third-person nouns and pronouns, then they just need to add an ‘s’ to the nouns or base form of the verb.
| Singular Verbs | Plural Verbs |
| Boat | Boats |
| House | Houses |
| Cat | Cats |
| Dog | Dogs |
| Pillar | Pillars |
| Pill | Pills |
| River | Rivers |
| Mountain | Mountains |
| Place | Places |
| Car | Cars |
| Vehicle | Vehicles |
| Network | Networks |
| Toy | Toys |
| Pen | Pens |
| Animal | Animals |
| Medicine | Medicines |
| Gun | Guns |
| Bed | Beds |
| Color | Colors |
| Work | Works |
| Pay | Pays |
| Say | Says |
| Know | Knows |
| Spring | Springs |
| Write | Writes |
| Become | Becomes |
| Drink | Drinks |
| Get | Gets |
| Lead | Leads |
| Seek | Seeks |
| Sing | Sings |
| Speak | Speaks |
| Steal | Steals |
| Tear | Tears |
| Wear | Wears |
2. You Must Drop The ‘s’ with Plural Verb forms:
Sometimes while following the grammar rules, the reverse is true for the plural nouns and pronouns. So this time when it comes to plural nouns, you must drop the ‘s’ of the base form.
Generally, when it comes to making some good note with the verbs and get to agree on it with the subject of the sentence, singular and plural rules comes handy.
3. Adding ‘es’ to the Singular Verb
In case, you are working with the singular third person nouns or pronouns then you need to add ‘-es’ to the base form of the verb.
| Singular | Plural |
| Bus | Buses |
| Wish | Wishes |
| Catch | Catches |
| Pitch | Pitches |
| Box | Boxes |
| Watch | Watches |
| Match | Matches |
| Cloth | Clothes |
| Go | Goes |
| Drive | Drives |
| Forgive | Forgives |
| Hide | Hides |
4. Changes in ‘-y’ to ‘i’ and adding ‘-es’
In certain cases, you have to change the ‘-y’ ending to an ‘-i’ and then it will be added to ‘es’ to give the form of the singular verb. In some exceptional cases, the irregular verbs change form from past tense to past participle.
| Singular | Plural |
| Spy | Spies |
| Sky | Skies |
| Baby | Babies |
| Hobby | Hobbies |
| Daisy | Daisies |
| City | Cities |
| Penny | Pennies |
| Fly | Flies |
| Cry | Cries |
In the given table of singular and plural verbs, you can see that in third-person singular the English verbs change from singular to form plural verb forms. With the help of examples, you can easily learn the singular and plural verbs.
Conclusion:
Till now, you got to learn about how the singular verbs can be formed into plural. This happens in the case of the third-person singular verb. The base verb will change from singular to plural. Also, it will change the tense from past to past participle. The most important part of English that sometimes makes it tough to learn is its verb forms. There are many regular and irregular verb forms that are really hard and long to explain. These verbs help the learners to navigate between the maze of English verbs – that comprises both regular and irregular verb forms.
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