Question

Identify the plural form of the noun hero.

(a)Hero
(b)Heroz
(c)Heroes
(d)Heroes

Answer 1

Hint: The noun hero refers to a person who is admired or idealized for courage. For making the plural form of the noun hero, we will use the rule used for singular words ending with -o.

Complete step by step answer:
For singular words ending with -o, we simply add the suffix, -es towards the end to make it plural. For e.g. plural form for zero would be, zero + -es i.e. zeroes. So, the plural form for the word ‘hero’ would be hero + -es i.e., heroes. Therefore, the correct answer is d. Option a, Hero is the singular form as mentioned in the question.
Option b is incorrect in terms of spelling, there is no such word in the English language.
Option c is incorrect too in terms of spelling as suffix, -es has been replaced by only as -s here. Therefore options a, b, c, are all invalid.

Note: Do not confuse between b, heroes and d, heroes because of the slight sound of z in the pronunciation. The correct spelling is heroes.