Just by mastering few things, we can increase our scores.
The main thing or concept in English which conveys the meaning any word or sentence is NOUN
Firstly, we need to judge what kind a noun must be either singular or plural.
Singular Plural
Woman Women
Sheep Sheep
Fish Fish
Foot Feet
News News
Politics Politics
There are those words which remains same, but, candidates get confused in exam in Listening especially.
Singular Plural
Pants Pants
Scissors Scissors
Pajamas Pajamas
Water Water
Gold Gold
Sand Sand
Now, lets have bit more clearance about this:
Those words ending with s, ch,sh and x will have 'es' when they converted into plural.
Glass -into- Glasses
Dish -into- Dishes
Watch -into- Watches
Box -into- Boxes
But, if the word is ending with 'Y' and while converting that word into plural will have 'ies' onthe place of 'Y'.
Family -into- Families
Fly -into- Flies
Sky -into- Skies
Dry -into- Dries
Many candidates write Fly into Family or Familys and lose overall band score.
Moreover, Noun ending with 'O' have 'es' to become a plural word.
Do -into- Does
Tomato -into- Tomatoes
Potato -into- Potatoes
Hero -into- Heroes
If a noun is ended with 'oo' then it will be written it as noun+s only, such as Bamboo -into- Bamboos
Noun ending with f/fe will changes into 'ves'
Thief -into- Thieves
Shelf -into- Shelves
Leaf -into- Leaves
Wife -into- Wives
Here too, candidates do a lot many mistakes.
In IELTS most of the answers are nouns either it is in listening or in reading module.
Do Remember, Singular or Plural answers matter a lot, false noun will give 0 as an incorrect spelling.
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