Friday 27 September 2013

Additional Information for 'Noun'


1. Noun 'n' Number
Nouns always Singular therefore take a sl. Verb
Nouns always Plural therefore take a pl. Verb
Nouns despite Singular take a pl. Verb
Nouns - Singular or Plural depending on the Meaning
  Comment These nouns take only a singular verb because of their nature of boundlessness, countlessness, immeasurability or inexhaustibility. These nouns take a plural verb because of their basic plural nature. These nouns always take a plural verb because they make a particular kind or category of things as a whole. Whenever these nouns indicate division or individual contribution, they take a plural verb, otherwise take a singular verb.
  Don't say Example 1. Say Furnitures are put into a house or an office to make it suitable for living in or working in. Scissors does not cut through wire. Don't go out after nine the police patrol at night. a) The government is likely to welcome the proposal. (b) The government have many opinions about the proposal.
  Furniture is put into a house or an office to make it suitable for living in or working in. Scissors do not cut through wire. Don't go out after nine the police patrols at night.
  Don't say: Example 2: Say: The Mathematics learnt by him have not at all helped me do well in the test. Where is my spectacles? If Peasantry is neglected, the economy of a state cannot prosper. (a) The audience was enthusiastic on the opening night of the play.

(b) Audience usually turn up with different tastes.
  The Mathematics learnt by him has not at all helped me do well in the test. Where are my spectacles? If peasantry are neglected, the economy of a state cannot prosper.
 

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I. The Noun
 
1. Noun 'n' Number
Nouns always Singular therefore take a Singular Verb
Nouns always Plural therefore take a Plural Verb
Nouns despite Singular take a Plural Verb
Nouns - Singular or Plural depending on the meaning
 
Group of Nouns
abuse
advice
athletics
bedding
bread
burnings
character
classics
damage
ethics
fish
fruit
fuel
furniture
gallows
gram
grass
hair
information
innings
knowledge
luggage
machinery
mathematics
mischief
money
news
physics
poetry
progress
repair
rice
scenery
stationery
thunder
lightning
and also all “---ies” ending nouns.
alms
annals
billiards
clothes
chattels
drafts
draughts
goods
measles
pants (or pantaloons)
premises
scissors
thanks
kidings
krousers, etc.
artillery cattle
clergy's
company
gentry
peasantry
people
police
vermin, etc
audience
committee
commission
government
jury
orchestra
public
team, etc

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