1. Noun 'n' Number
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Nouns always Singular therefore take a sl. Verb
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Nouns always Plural therefore take a pl. Verb
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Nouns despite Singular take a pl. Verb
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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. |
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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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1. Noun 'n' Number
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Nouns always Singular therefore take a Singular Verb
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Nouns always Plural therefore take a Plural Verb
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Nouns despite Singular take a Plural Verb
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Nouns - Singular or Plural depending on the meaning | |
Group of Nouns
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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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