Best Amazon Prime Day deals: Mumsnet favourites

Best Amazon Prime Day deals:
Mumsnet favourites

Shop now

Please or to access all these features

Other subjects

Please do ds1's homework for me - irregular plural nouns.

34 replies

marthamoo · 28/01/2005 15:29

Ds1's weekend homework is to write 10 sentences using irregular plural nouns. Apart from mouse and mice all the ones I can think of off the top of my head are ones like larva, larvae; antenna, antennae, bacterium, bacteria; pupa, pupae. Now I'm scratching my head and coming up with house, hice.....

We can do the sentences - but rather than search on google I thought MNers might like the chance to exercise those little grey cells! Ds1 and I thank you in advance

Btw, ds1 will be reading this so no rude ones please!

OP posts:
hoxtonchick · 28/01/2005 15:30

err, is man & men too obvious?

Gem13 · 28/01/2005 15:31

Sheep
Louse

franke · 28/01/2005 15:32

goose geese

Beansmum · 28/01/2005 15:32

knife, potato, cactus, wife

Gem13 · 28/01/2005 15:32

Radius

franke · 28/01/2005 15:33

knife knives

marthamoo · 28/01/2005 15:35

That's ten. Ds1 is very impressed at the power of MN! Thanks muchly.

OP posts:
Beansmum · 28/01/2005 15:35

half, loaf, person

twiglett · 28/01/2005 15:35

Di Dice

tarantula · 28/01/2005 15:38

child children

Beansmum · 28/01/2005 15:40

oh, I didn't put the plurals in, I'm sure you can work it out!

Gem13 · 28/01/2005 15:42

Neither did I but then it is his homework

marthamoo · 28/01/2005 15:49

Don't worry, - I'll only give him the singular nouns, he can work the rest out himself

OP posts:
LIZS · 28/01/2005 15:51

ditch , witch, pitch
tomato
foot

PrettyCandles · 28/01/2005 15:53

axis
stadium
datum
medium
focus

LIZS · 28/01/2005 16:05

pansy, daisy
box, fox
deer

LIZS · 28/01/2005 16:07

pottery
factory
dictionary
library

MunchedTooManyMarsLady · 28/01/2005 16:10

family
baby

charleypops · 28/01/2005 16:11

can I but in and quickly ask about "roof", I'm sure I was taught the plural was "rooves" but always read "roofs" in the yellow pages etc.

Am I stupid?

Sorry for butting in, I've been dying to know for years

x

charleypops · 28/01/2005 16:11

Butt in

marthamoo · 28/01/2005 16:13

It's roofs. But I don't know why!

OP posts:
WigWamBam · 28/01/2005 16:15

Roofs. According to my dictionaries, anyway.

WigWamBam · 28/01/2005 16:21

agenda/agendum
appendix/appendices
index/indices
ox/oxen
leaf/leaves

iota · 28/01/2005 16:25

hoof and hooves

iota · 28/01/2005 16:26

loaf and loaves

Swipe left for the next trending thread