Plurals that end in es informs KS1 children of the rule of adding this suffix to a noun. The National Curriculum requires Year 1 children to know how to spell the ‘iz’ sound when adding ‘es’ to a word to make it plural.
There is one box but if there are two, we would say two boxes. The ‘es’ letters makes an ‘iz’ sound but are spelt ‘es’. Test your knowledge on these ‘es’ plural words.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Making words plural
Foxes have whiskers on their legs and faces!
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The word stays the same and you only add 'es' onto the end.
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One of the most famous dresses of all time was Princess Diana's wedding dress that had a twenty-five foot train.
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We also add the 'es' sound to verbs. We could say watch is something you wear on your wrist but it is also something you do. We could, therefore, write 'He watches television.'
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We would say one bus and two buses. The bus service in London is run by TfL, which stands for Transport for London.
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There is a beach in Australia called the Ninety Mile Beach and guess what...it's over ninety miles long!
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Here you have the 'i' sound from the letter 'i' and the 'i' sound from the letter 'e'.
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A brush is an item and something you can do. If we say she brushes her hair, then we also add the 'es' onto the end of the word.
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The answer is 5.08 cm.
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I hope you think so!
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