{"id":341,"date":"2025-07-16T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/2025\/07\/16\/dont-get-tripped-up-by-simple-plurals-whats-the-right-word-here-what-is-the-plural-of-child\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:15:45","slug":"dont-get-tripped-up-by-simple-plurals-whats-the-right-word-here-what-is-the-plural-of-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/dont-get-tripped-up-by-simple-plurals-whats-the-right-word-here-what-is-the-plural-of-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t get tripped up by simple plurals! What&#8217;s the right word here?&#8221; What is the plural\u00a0of\u00a0&#8216;child&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Childs<br>Children<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation:<br>The word \u2018child\u2019 is an irregular noun, so its plural is \u2018children\u2019, not \u2018childs\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regular plurals usually add -s or -es (like book \u2192 books, box \u2192 boxes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some words have special plural forms: man \u2192 men,<br>woman \u2192 women,<br>tooth \u2192 teeth,<br>child \u2192 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, \u2018children\u2019 is the correct plural&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2018child\u2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChildsChildren Answer Children Explanation:The word \u2018child\u2019 is an irregular noun, so its plural is \u2018children\u2019, not \u2018childs\u2019. Regular plurals usually add -s or -es (like book \u2192 books, box \u2192 boxes). But some words have special plural forms: man \u2192 men,woman \u2192 women,tooth \u2192 teeth,child \u2192 children. So, \u2018children\u2019 is the correct plural&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2018child\u2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Editor","author_link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/author\/editor\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/category\/daily-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Tips<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"ChildsChildren Answer Children Explanation:The word \u2018child\u2019 is an irregular noun, so its plural is \u2018children\u2019, not \u2018childs\u2019. Regular plurals usually add -s or -es (like book \u2192 books, box \u2192 boxes). But some words have special plural forms: man \u2192 men,woman \u2192 women,tooth \u2192 teeth,child \u2192 children. So, \u2018children\u2019 is the correct plural&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2018child\u2019!","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}