(EEAR - 2016)
Read the dialogue below and answer the question.
Dad: Frog, I like frog. It runs through a maze for some cheese...
Child: Noooooooooo, that's mouse!
Dad: Oh, mouse. I see. Mouse. I like 1mouse. I like how it swims in the ocean...
Child: No! That's fish.
Dad: Oh, I see. 2Fish. I like fish. I like how it scratches at fleas and bark at the mailman...
Child: No, no, no, no.
Dad: No?
Child: You don't know anything about animals, daddy!
(Adapted from 'The Elephant Song", by Eric Herman)
Choose the alternative that presents the plural of the nouns "mouse" and "fish" (references 1 and 2), in the text, respectively.
mice - fish
mice - fishs
mouses - fishs
mouses - fishes
Gabarito:
mice - fish
[A]
A alternativa [A] está correta, pois o plural de mouse enquanto camundongo é mice. Caso a palavra mouse fizesse referência ao instrumento usado em computadores, seu plural seria mouses. O substantivo fish admite dois tipos de plural: fish (peixes de mesma espécie) e fishes (peixes de espécies diferentes).