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Kenny1999 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

fish or fishes?

hi
i know the plural form of fish could be fish or fishes

I remember (but i m not sure) that in plural cases, fish refers to two or more fish but fishes are usually used in biological cases describing different species of fish...

my question
1. have i remembered correctly above? if wrong, please tell me the truth.
2. when "fish" is used as plural form and the subject and there is a verb following it. plural verb or singular verb is used?

In plural cases
Fish is ...........
or Fish are ...........

If i want to cook a lot of fish, which object pronouns are correct?

A. I'll cook them
B. I'll cook it

Thank you
  

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kenny1999 1. have i remembered correctly above? Yes, you have.

— Mister Micawber

  • kenny1999 1.
  • have i remembered correctly above?
  • Yes, you have.
  • kenny1999 2.
  • when "fish" is used as plural form and the subject and there is a verb following it.
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kenny19991. have i remembered correctly above?
Yes, you have.
kenny19992. when "fish" is used as plural form and the subject and there is a verb following it. plural verb or singular verb is used?
If 'fish' is plural then the verb is plural.
kenny1999If i want to cook a lot of fish, which object prono
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If i want to express the number of fish

is it grammatically correct to say

one fish
two fish
three fish............

or do I have to add anything like

For example
one piece of paper
two pieces of paper
three pieces of paper

But it's incorrect that

one paper
two paper..
three paper............
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kenny1999is it grammatically correct to say one fish two fishthree fish............
Yes, because 'fish' is countable. Only uncountable nouns like 'paper' need counters.
kenny1999one papertwo paper..three paper..
That's OK if 'paper' = 'newspaper'. Then it is countable.
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