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Nouns - Uncountable and Plural Nouns
Nouns - Uncountable and Plural Nouns
PLURAL FORMATION
SINGULAR PLURAL
man men
woman women
mouse mice
child children
person people
tooth teeth
foot feet
goose geese
ox oxen
louse lice
Nouns with the same singular and plural: fish, cattle, deer, sheep, species,
Uncountable nouns
- The following nouns are always uncountable: behaviour, traffic, weather,
accommodation, health, progress, scenery, rubbish, garbage, work,
politics (and other words ending in –ics, athletics, economics).
- They always need a singular verb, they don’t have plurals, and they can’t be
used with a/an.
- These nouns are also uncountable; furniture, information, advice,
homework, housework, research, news, luck, bread, toast, luggage,
baggage, food, equipment. Use a piece of to talk about an individual item.
- Some nouns can be either countable or uncountable, but the meaning changes,
e.g.; iron=the metal; an iron=the thing used to press clothes. Other examples
are: glass, business, paper, light, time, space.
Crew, police, staff are collective nouns and refer to a group of people. They need a
plural verb.