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15. to form the plural of a noun ending in s, sh, ch, or x, you should add

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The correct answer in most regular cases is -es. For example, bus-buses, fish-fishes, church-churches, fox-foxes. This ending is from Old English and is one of the few types of Old English word endings that have not been lost, along with other plural markers.
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