What nouns completely change form for singular to plural?

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Sheep and deer are nouns that are the same singular and plural. Example sentences:

A sheep has escaped the pen.

The sheep have escaped the pen.

A deer was in the road.

The deer were in the road.

Other examples are:

offspring

salmon

information

series

species

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Examples of nouns with the same form for singular and plural: advice aircraft aluminum archives binoculars bison chalk concrete correspondence counsel deer education elk eyeglasses fish food furniture headquarters information knowledge mankind moose news offspring oxygen pajamas pants pike police reindeer salmon scissors series sheep shorts species steel swine tongs trout tweezers wheat wood

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As far as I know, there is no specific term for a noun that spells the same in the singular and in the plural. It is simply categorized among the "Irregular Nouns" that don't follow the common "s"/"es" rule. Answer: Words like "sheep" and "fish" which can mean one or several of the items are mass nouns.

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Words that change form from singular to plural are called irregular plural nouns. Examples are: child, children die, dice foot, feet elf, elves goose, geese half, halves knife, knives leaf, leaves life, lives loaf, loaves louse, lice man, men medium, media mouse, mice ox, oxen shelf, shelves thief, thieves tooth, teeth wife, wives wolf, wolves woman, women

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Here are some of the basic ones:  one sheep, two sheep  one fish, two fish  one aircraft, two aircraft  one corps, two corps  one swine, two swine  one dozen, two dozen

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They're called mass or non-count noun. Mass nouns are usually words for concepts or substances. Multiples are expressed as measures or amounts. Some examples are: Concepts: He has a lot of determination  . There isn't much news   today. We need a more ideas   for this project. She has a great deal of hope   for getting the job. Substances: We had two glasses of wine  . Two tons of sand   were ordered for the site. The recipe calls for four cups of flour  . Make it a triple decker sandwich with three slices of bread  . The plural form for mass nouns is reserved for 'types of' or 'kinds of', for example: The selection of rices   was wild, basmatti, or long grain. They sell many kinds of teas  , including black, green, white, and herbal. European cheeses   are extremely popular in the US.

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child-children; ox-oxen; brother-brethren; cow-kine; mouse-mice; foot-feet; tooth-teeth; goose-geese; schema-schemata; die-dice; person-people; country-countries;

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Examples of nouns that are the same in the singular and the plural: advice deer scissors

kennedysafari · Answer

Hair Air Rice

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