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

[marthamoo]

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!

fish and fish

sheep and sheep

Thanks! !

die - dice

It's pronounced 'rooves' though, so maybe thats why it's confusing..

Yes, and the hoof/hooves thing so illogical isn't it? I don't know how anyone successfully learns English if it's not their first language.

But some of those suggestions aren't irregular are they? The y words all go to ies, which I thought was correct unless they end in ey...

charleypops... with great difficulty ... I was rubbish at English at school - German's my mother tongue -. But now been living in the UK for 14 years and just using 'gut feeling' (and there's currently a lot of gut )

Saying that I had more problems with prepositions (?) (you know all these little words) and temporal structure

irregular plural nouns Found this for you

Thanks for all your help - he is writing his last sentence as I type