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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by sheep or by

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wolves in sheep's clothing and we're not sure it was dark and we weren't wearing [A wolf in a sheeps body and man opens the door in surprise]

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our glasses.. All right well choose the correct spelling for the word that means more than

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one wolf and here the potential answers... okay if there's one thing that

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terrifies us more than a wolf it's more than one wolf now but this question is [A pack of wolves with sheep bodies appear]

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asking us to face our fear so let's just do it we need to choose the correct

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spelling of the plural form of wolf option A says we just stick an S on

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to the end of it but well, it doesn't look quite right in fact there's a

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special rule for working with many words that end in F like elf and shelf and [A baby elf, a shelf and a scarf appear]

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scarf what's that rule well do we add an es at the end like in option C now

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that looks like it would be pronounced wolf-es which can't be correct. Well does

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D have it right do we just change the F to a V, we don't see too many words even

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plurals ending in a V usually there has to be some sort of vowel after it right

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and yep, the right answer here is option B we change the F to VE before adding the

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S so we go from wolf to wolves.. Answer B is the right one now there's a good rule to [A pack of sheep with wolves heads appear]

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remember the next time you see elves on shelves or wolves with scarves.. We think [Lots of elves on shelves and wolves wearing scarves]

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that one's really going to catch up next Christmas.

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