Question

What is the plural form of “fish”?

Answer 1

Hint: Here we need to find out the plural form of the given word. Two words namely: singular and plural. When a noun is singular it means that there is only an object or person or when a noun is a plural it means that there is more than one object or person. For example, foot - feet; tooth – teeth; hand – hands; fly – flies and etc.

Complete answer:
Singular nouns can be made plural by simply adding – S or Es to the end of the word. There are different rules for the pluralization of the words depending on what letter of the noun it ends with.
There are certain rules of plurals and they are:
1) In order to make regular nouns plural then this is the simplest way to– put ‘S’ to the end of the word. For example, hen – hens; rabbit – rabbits.
2) If a noun ends with – S, SS, SH, CH, X or Z – then in such cases put ‘ES’ to the end of the word. For example, lunch – lunches; marsh – marshes.
3) If a noun ending with – S or Z like gas or fez then in such cases you just double the S or Z before putting ‘ES’ to the end of the word. For example, gas – gasses; fez – fezzes.
4) If a noun ending with F or FE then add ‘-VE’ before adding ‘S’ to the respective word. For example, wife – wives; wolf – wolves.
5) If a noun word ends with ‘Y’ then put ‘IES’ at the end of the word. For example, country – countries; puppy – puppies.

As explained above the rules of plurals. The plural of fish is fishes because as per the rule 2) when a singular noun ends with “SH” simply put ‘ES’ at the end of the word. Thus, the singular noun ‘fish’ ends with ‘SH’ then to make it plural we will add ‘ES’ at the end of the noun. Therefore, fish – fishes is the correct plural form of the singular form fish.

Note:
I) If a noun ending with O puts ‘ES’ to the end of the word. For example, tomato – tomatoes; potato – potatoes.
2) If a noun ending with ‘US’ simply puts ‘I’ at the end of the word. For example, focus – foci; cactus – cacti.
3) Is a noun ending with ‘IS’ then put ‘ES’ at the end of the word. For example, ellipses – ellipses; analysis – analyses.
4) If a noun ends with ‘‘ON” put ‘A’ at the end of the word to make it plural. For example, criterion – criteria; phenomenon – phenomena.
5) There are some cases where we do not change the ending word to make it plural. For example, sheep – sheep; deer – deer; species – species; hair – hair etc.