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Warm-up

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the nouns in the brackets.

The New Wave School organised a ‘Care and Share Week’. The
(child) packed suitcases full of (thing) to be given to the

underprivileged (child), who had lost their
(parent).

Each (child) packed something to be donated.

Vidya put in a few (dress) and some
(T-shirt). Faiz packed some

(medicine), a few (packet) of
(biscuit), some (colouring book) and five

(box) of (crayon), some
(cloth) and a few (box) of (sweet). Tarun added

a blanket and three (sheet). Finally, Akshay
put in two (box) of

(chocolate), and they were ready to go and hand over the
(gift).

A noun that stands for one person, place, animal or thing is said to be in the singular
number. For example, a school, a child, a toothbrush, a comb, a blanket.

A noun that stands for more than one person, place, animal or thing is said to be in
the plural number. For example, schools, children, toothbrushes, combs, blankets.

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