•THESE NOUNS FOLLOW PLURAL VERB….AS THEY ARE ONLY IN PLURAL FORM …..

WE CAN
NOT USE THESE NOUNS BY REMOVING S AS A SINGULAR
Scissors, tongs , pliers, pincers, bellows , trousers, pants, pajamas, shorts, gallows, fangs ,
spectacles, goggles, binoculars, eyeglasses, Alms , amends , archives, arrears, auspices,
congratulations, embers, fireworks, lodgings, outskirts, particulars, proceeds, regards,
riches, remains, savings, shambles, surroundings, tidings, troops, tactics, thanks, valuables,
wages, belongings etc.
(a) Where are my pants?
(b) Where are the tongs?
(c) Wages are paid in cash. Wages of hard work is sweet.

• These nouns Should always use in singular form

• News, Innings, Politics, Summons, Physics, Economics, Ethics, Mathematics, Mumps,
Measles, Rickets, Shingles, Billiards, Athletics etc.
a) No news is good news.
b) Politics is a dirty game.
• These are plural nouns not singular
cattle, cavalry, infantry, poultry, peasantry, children, gentry, police, people, etc.
(a) Cattle are grazing in the field.
(b) Police have arrested the thieves.

• Scenery, Poetry, Furniture, Advice, Information, Hair, Business, Mischief, Bread,

Stationery, Crockery, Luggage, Baggage, Postage, Knowledge, Wastage, Jewellery,
Breakage, Equipment, work
• These are Uncountable Nouns………..so we can not use ARTICLES a, an with these nouns
(a) His hair is black.
(b) The scenery of Kashmir is very charming.
(c) Many kinds of furniture are available in that shop. (EXCEPTIONS)
• deer, sheep, series , species, fish, crew, team, jury, aircraft, counsel etc.
• These are both singular and plural
a) Our team is the best.
b) Our team are trying their new uniform.
c) There are two fish in the pond.
d) There are many fishes in the aquarium.

• Hyphenated noun ……. nouns should be in singular form only

(a) He gave me two hundred-rupee notes.
(b) He stays in five-star hotels.
• Pair, score, gross, stone, hundred, dozen, thousand, million, billion, etc. …..definite
nouns
(a) I have two pairs of shoes.
(b) I have two hundred rupees only.

dozens of women, hundreds of people, millions of dollars, scores of shops, many pairs of
shoes etc………..indefinite nouns
(a) Hundreds of people came to see the fair.
(b) He donated millions of rupees.
Number unit noun……Unit must be in singular
Ex. I am two year old
Tens of hundreds of thousands of lakhs of people….ascending order

• These are examples of noun follows preposition and same noun …verb should be
singular…..because noun should be in singular
(a) He enquired from door to door.
(b) Ship after ship is arriving.
• Brother-in-law Brothers-in-law

• Singular Plural
Calf Calves
Wife Wives

• for non living things …we don’t use apostrophe

Table's leg Leg of table

• anybody/ Nobody/ Everybody/ Somebody/ Anyone/Someone/No one/Everyone

(a) Everyone’s concern is no one’s concern.
(b) Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

(c) I can rely on your words, not somebody else’s.

(d) I obey your orders and nobody else’s.
• Ask question to verb ….where ….gives you adverb
I went home

• who, what, whom…..noun

• Summon…..verb
Summons …… singular noun
Summonses …… plural noun

• Apostrophe s can be used only with nouns …not with pronouns