Some nouns are always used in the singular form. These are uncountable nouns.
Poetry | Scenery | Machinery | Drapery | Stationery | Jewelry |
Sultry | Crockery | Luggage | Baggage | Knowledge | Postage |
Breakage | Percentage | Wastage | Foolish | Polish | Rubish |
Dirt | Dust | Information | Furniture | Traffic | Clothing |
Money | Music | Coffee | Advice | work | fruit, mischief |
Some examples:
Some nouns always remains in plural form
assets | alms | amends | annals | ashes | arrears | athletics |
auspices | species | scissors | trousers | pants | clippers | bellows |
gallows | eyeglasses | goggles | belongings | breeches | braces | binoculars |
dregs | earnings | entrails | fetters | fireworks | odds | outskirts |
particulars | proceeds | proceedings | riches | remains | shambles | shears |
spectacles | surroundings | tidings | tongs | valuables | wages | |
Some nouns are singular in form, but plural in function.
children | oxen | people | cattle |
poultry | clergy | cavalry | infantry |
peasantry | folk | gentry | vermin |
Some examples
Some nouns are plural in form, but singular in use.
Mathematics | Physics | Economics | Politics | statistics | genetics | linguistics |
billiards | darts | diabetes | measles | rickets | rabies | Tennis |
ethics | summons | | | | | |
Examples
- Mathematics is my favorite subject.
- Tennis is played worldwide.
- Politics is a dirty game.
- Ethics demands honesty.
- Diabetes is not as serious as cancer.
- Two summonses have issues.
- The Gulliver travels is an interesting story.
| Singular | Plural |
Verb | Summon | Summons |
Noun | Summons | Summonses |
Some nouns are the same in singular and plural.
Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural |
sheep | sheep | deer | deer |
cod (a large fish) | cod | salmon | salmon |
species | species | Aircraft | Aircraft |
Spacecraft | Spacecraft | corps (military unit) | corps |
crossroads | crossroad | | |
Some examples
- He has only one sheep.
- He has sold all his sheep.
- There are ten dears in this forest.
- Several Aircraft crashed last year.
- There is a dangerous crossroad before that village.
Some nouns, are sometimes singular and sometimes plural.
Dozen | Five dozen oranges | Dozens of oranges |
Hundred | Two hundred rupees | Hundreds of rupees |
Thousand | Five thousand rupees | Thousands of rupees |
Some examples
- I need ten thousand rupees.
- Thousands of people went there.
- We gave him ten million dollars.
- Millions of dollars were wasted.