Singular
Only singular : furniture, money, food,
news, advice, fruit ,knowledge, twilight,
information, chaIk,progress, courage,
baggage, equipment, garbage, jewellery,
junk, mail, makeup, change, postage,
scenery, traffic, dirt, dust, flour, pepper,
salt, sand,cloth, economics, physics, gossip,
gymnastics, hair, rice, margin, macaroni  jeans, scales, tweezers, mass media, oats,
We also use singular verb forms with:
Nouns which refer to school subjects:
mathematics, economics, physics, politics.
Nouns which refer to games: dominoes,
draughts, billiards, darts.
Nouns which refer to illnesses: mumps,
measles, red measles.
Uncountable nouns: glass, water, wood,
tea, ice, rice, food, gold, silver, gin, dust,
bread, stone, flour, oil, butter, furniture.
Abstract nouns: anger, hope, courage,
beauty, choice, hunger, excitement, help,
kindness, quietness, confidence, cowardice,
education, weakness, youth, terror,
comfort, happiness, ease, truth, variety,
anxiety, enjoyment, experience, fun,
entertainment, generosity, greed(-iness),
depth, width, hate, health, honesty,
hospitality, luck, poverty, ignorance,
laughter, love, pride, patience, absence,
length, care, bravery, peace, intelligence,
justice, wealth, ugliness, death, loneliness,
meanness, cruelty, violence, time, stupidity,
progress, recreation, research, life,
opposition, help, death, courage,
information, work, suspicion, knowledge,
hope, pity, luggage, shopping, parking,
camping, hair, weather, damage, freedom,
brotherhood.
When we speak about these nouns as used
in the soups, pies, salads, we use them in
the singular.
As a modifier the noun is always used in
the singular : a two day trip, a three hour
exam, a vegetable salad, cat food, a student
book
The name of language is used in singular
Plural Mixed
Only plural: annals, pincers, winnings, Some nouns have different meaning in
travels, statistics, thanks, particulars, the singular and plural : cloth – clothes,
shears, cattle, bellows, makings, takings, content – contents, custom – customs, fund
surroundings, dregs, suds, victuals, – funds, glass – glasses, hair – hairs,
belongings, goods/wares, spirits(alcohol), manner – manners, relation – relations,
valuables, surroundings, pains( effort, scale – scales, spirit – spirits, wood –
trouble), savings, grapes, trousers, police, woods, work – works.
remains, reins, scissors, wages, clothes,
contents, pyjamas, tongs, people, tights,
spectacles, breeches, pants, pliers, outskirts,
suburbs, arms, proceeds, glasses,
binoculars, manners, earnings, brains,
stairs, steps, premises, cattle, poultry,
earrings, socks, gloves, statistics,
congratulations, lodgings,
greens( vegetables)
Initials can be made plural: These nouns have the same form in the
MPs- members of Parliament; singular and in the plural:
VIPs – very important persons; a). sheep, herring, squid, plaice, fish, cod,
UFOs – unidentified object. giraffe, species, grouse, gallows, deer,
trout, swine, pheasant, means, buffalo,
brace, partridge, barracks, salmon,
offspring, series
b). and also some nouns like: aircraft,
spacecraft, hovercraft, etc.
c). some nouns ending –s: crossroads,
means, series, species, works.
* Here we see that –f changes into –ves in
plural: thief – thieves, wharf – wharves,
knife – knives, self – selves, hoof – hooves,
sheaf – sheaves, scarf – scarves, life – lives,
wife – wives, wolf – wolves, half – halves,
leaf – leaves, calf – calves, loaf – loaves.
BUT! These nouns end in –s and the
ending –f does not change: belief, roof,
proof, muff, cliff, chief, kerchief, cuff, safe,
grief.
* Here are some exceptions, which have
the ending –s, not the –es: video, photo,
piano, cuckoo, solo, zoo, radio, soprano,
studio, auto, bamboo, memo, disco, tattoo,
dynamo, kimono;
BUT! Zero – zeroes/zeros, tornado –
tornadoes/ tornados, volcano –
volcanoes/volcanos, mosquito –
mosquitoes/ mosquitos, cargo – cargos,
cargoes.
These nouns are always used in plural :
peas, raisins, beans, apricots, grapes,
cherries, prunes. When we speak about
the fruit and vegetables in general we use
these nouns in plural
The people will be used in plural.( the poor,
the old etc)