英文一問, 請指教。

Lily2003

有套美式兒童教材係話 :
[size=large]One Fish
Two Fish

點解唔係 Two Fishes ?????

我相信呢套美式兒童教材係無印錯的。

請指教, 謝謝。

Jsmami

The book is right.  Fish is like, say, rice, you won't say rice(s).  But in case one wants to describe diff types of fish, then u may hear people saying fishes.  A lot of people make this mistake.

Lily2003

Jsmami

Thank you. :  :

bbmammy

Explanation from Oxford Dictionary:
(pl: fish or fishes), e.g.  a fish, two fishes, a lot of fish.

Please teach me how to know when we use fish for pl, when we use  fishes for pl.  Or we use fish or fishes in any cases are correct.

Thank you for sharing.

Jokey2828

I tend to use "fish" and "fishes" interchangeably. Remember the song "Fishes, fishes, where are you?"

Jokey2828

kaseychan2004

You can say 5 fish if you mean 5 條 魚

You can say 5 fishes if you mean  5 種 魚.

Similar explanation for staff and people.