Write plural of the following words.
Write plural to the following words.
Which one is the correct answer, and why?
Learn English – Write plural of/to the following words
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Write plural of the following words.
Write plural to the following words.
Which one is the correct answer, and why?
Best Answer
Neither of them are correct, really. The first is closest but is missing an article:
The reason it sounds off without the article is that you're referring to a specific property of the words (their plural in this case) so the definite article is appropriate. You could, however, also write
But in terms of asking a non-native speaker to do this, you risk introducing some ambiguity in that it's possible to interpret that as meaning some words have more than one plural (which they do, but I don't imagine that's an English 101 topic).