Uncountable

and
Plural Nouns
Uncountable
behaviour,traffic,
weather,

nouns accommodation,
health, progress,
scenery, rubbish, work,
singular verb
can't be used with politics (and other
a/an words ending in -ics,
e.g. athletics,
economics).
 Other uncountable
nouns
furniture, information,
advice, homework, research, news, luck, bread, toast, luggage,
equipment

Use "a piece of" to talk about an item

 Some nouns can be either
countable or uncountable, but
their meaning changes

e.g. glass= the material used to make

windows, a glass= the thing you drink out of.

Other examples:
iron, business, paper, light, time, space
 Plural nouns
arms (guns, etc.), belongings, clothes, manners, headphones,
tweezers, premises (buildings), savings, outskirts,
scissors, trousers/shorts are plural nouns with no singular

"a pair os scissors" "some trousers"

"a pair" "some" if they consist of two parts
Collective Crew, police, staff, audience, public,

Nouns
committee, enemy, team, company,
government

They are collective nouns and refer to a group

of people. You can use a singular or plural verb with these,
depending on whether they are considered as a single unit or
as a collection of individuals .
Exception: POLICE, which needs a plural verb.
Collective Nouns
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