Never mind that english is my second language, my third is latin and that helped a lot.

19/21. But hey, as a third language I learned not too bad. Probably much better then I would have done with the first language I learned.

It's octopuses, I was so sure that would be on here.

Tuna and tunas are both correct.

I stopped on question 1. “Fish” has two acceptable plurals: “fish” and “fishes”. They’re not fully interchangeable—their usage is slightly different—but there is overlap. So both should be marked as correct answers. Don’t make a tricky language quiz if you’re not prepared to research every question and answer to make sure you’re not overlooking something.

15/21 with english as second language, I would say not to bad... but having basic knowledge in latin helped me more than english in this scenario ^^

Teef!

#9 THAT'S A RAT! I love how often this happens. n4scgse21i...890700.jpg

The confusing thing for some plurals is that they depend on the original language the word came from. This is why when people say the plural of octopus is octopii they are wrong. It is octopuses, as it comes from Greek not Latin.

21/21... african here. Anyway this is mostly latin/greek. Germanic words like fish/wolves/geese etc are quite regular. I was surprised to not see roof/rooves/roofs/hoof/hooves etc.

20/21

Got all correct except the very last one. 20/21.

19/21, I missed the last one, "criteria", and the "calf" one (I wasn't sure if the plural of the animal was the same as for the body part)

20/21 , not too bad

The first one is stupid. WTF is an "everyday plural"? And then the explanation says "fishes" is also correct!

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Was this written by a high school kid?