An -s at the end of an English word can have different meanings.
1) Plural form of a noun
There are two books on the desk.
Drop the s and you'll get book. This is a noun.
see plural of the nouns
2) Simple Present - 3rd person singular
John likes football.
Drop the s and you'll get like. This is a verb.
see Simple Present
3) Apostrophe 's
Have you seen Lisa's schoolbag?
Here is Charles's book.
The girls' room is nice.
see apostrophe
If you use the short/contracted form for is, you'll get 's:
Example: He is in the kitchen. - He's in the kitchen.
Other words ending in -s
These are words ending in -s or -ss enden, e.g.
always, as, bus, chaos, circus, famous, nervous, perhaps, tennis, this, us, yes
and
across, actress, address, class, cross, discuss, dress, glass, guess, kiss, less, Miss, pass, press
If you drop the -s you won't get an English word.
Example:
tennis -> tenni is not an English word
dress -> dre is not an English word
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