Sheep? Sheeps? Sheepes? part II

Since all of you are aware that there are irregular plural forms for certain nouns, I want to ask you a question. If a am married to woman, she would be called as my wife. Her mother would be my mother-in-law. But if I am married to four women, what would my wives' mothers be called as? Mother-in-laws?

Nope. It should be mothers-in-law. Although the whole word 'mother-in-law' itself is a noun, the changes in its plural should only be applied to the first word. This would include 'attorneys-general' and 'teachers-to-be'.

Since a lot have been learned, it is time for the exercise!

No?

For the exercise, you can try this link. Irregular forms You will be able to know your score on the spot. Just ignore the misspelled word 'socre' (it should be score). ^^

Sheep? Sheeps? Sheepes?

I guess all of you know what nouns are. But I'm going to explain it anyway. A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.
Example:-

A cat.

A flight of birds.

A herd of sheeps? Or is it a herd of sheep?

A gaggle of gooses?  Shouldn't it be a gaggle of geese?

Okay. While the plural form of many nouns are justified by the addition of the letter s at the end of the word, there are a lot of exceptions to this. Sheep and  geese are great examples. A single sheep is called a sheep, and the plural form of 'sheep' is still 'sheep'. For goose, the plural form is geese. There is no such thing as gooses.

These words have irregular plural forms. Other examples include:

• foot - feet
• louse - lice
• man - men
• mailman - mailmen
• child - children

To view a more elaborate list, you can follow this link English-zone.com. Here you can see nouns divided into different groups according to how their plural forms are. So students, after this I do not want to see any more mices or toothes in your essays. ^^