Mum, where does fishes come from?

The bedtime story of last night was Salmon, which mainly introduces the life habit of salmon. But Momo unexpectedly was curious about where does fishes come from. She asked me: “Mum, without their mother or father, where does fishes come from?” I was amazed at the question and did not know how to answer. Is it just the ultimate question of philosophy and science tries to answer: that where are we from? I had to say sorry and encourage her to find the answer in the future.

However, Momo began to explain herself. She said, the fishes come from water, the water come from grasses, the grasses grows from a seed, seeds come from fruits, fruits grow on the treessses, and a treesss grows from a seed. And, she was caught up in…

As I told her that the salmon goes upstream, spawns and then dies, she was very sad. I thought it was just because the death of the salmon mothers, but actually her sadness was that the salmon babies have no chance to see their mothers and so are the mothers.

Same comment as previous post regarding fish.  Trees is the plural of tree. Grass is the plural of itself.

"The salmon"  could be singular or plural.  Salmon is it's own plural  (don't say salmones). So it is not clear whether you are referring to one fish, or a group of fish, or this type of fish in general.

If it is plural or talking about the fish generally as a species:  The salmon go upstream  (plural).

If it is one fish:  The salmon goes upstream (singular).

English is a terrible language actually.  Chinese tenses are much easier.  But then again...Chinese has thousands of characters to learn....so we all have hard things in our languages.

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Mum, where does fish come from?

The bedtime story of last night was Salmon, which mainly introduces the life habit of salmon. But Momo unexpectedly was curious about where does fish come from. She asked me: “Mum, without their mother or father, where does fish come from?” I was amazed at the question and did not know how to answer. Is it just the ultimate question of philosophy and science that where are we from? I had to say sorry and encourage her to find the answer in the future.

However, Momo began to explain herself. She said, the fish come from water, the water come from grasses, the grasses grow from a seed, seeds come from fruits, fruits grow on the tree, and a tree grows from a seed. And, she was caught up in…

As I told her that the salmon go upstream, spawn and then die, she was very sad. I thought it was just because the death of the salmon mothers, but actually her sadness was that the salmon babies have no chance to see their mothers and so are the mothers.