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cbclark4
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 Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: Fish, Sheep and Deer |
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What do you call these type of nouns that don't change form between singular and plural?
Besides beer in Canada what other owrds belong in this list?
(I know that 'Fishes' is used when refering to different species and such.) |
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yingwenlaoshi
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Irregular with same singular and plural forms? |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Okay using your reply as a search term in google i got this:
There are a number of animals that have the same singular and plural form:
bison - bison
deer - deer
moose - moose
sheep - sheep
swine - swine
.... and this:
antelope - antelope or antelopes
cod - cod or cods
elk - elk or elks
fish - fish or fishes
flounder - flounder or flounders
grouse - grouse or grouses
herring - herring or herrings
quail - quail or quails
reindeer - reindeer or reindeers
salmon - salmon or salmons
shrimp - shrimp or shrimps
trout - trout or trouts
here
http://www.mcwdn.org/grammar/irregular.html |
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