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SINGULAR
1. Material nouns sugar, oxygen, oil
2. Abstract nouns means, music, anger, advice, applause, traffic
3. Natural nouns darkness, light, fog, thunder
4. Collective nouns luggage, furniture, money
5. Time, distance 5seconds, 7 meters
6. Diseases cancer, measles, mumps, rickets
7. Games bowls, billiards, dominoes
8. Ending in –ics politics, classics, economics
!!!но если в переносном значении употреблены, то plural
EX. What are your politics?
9. Some proper names The Thames, The United States, Wales, The United Nations.
10. !!!!!!!!! Traffic lights, evidence (улики), crossroads, summons (повестка), gallows (виселица).
PLURAL
1. Names of tools, consisting of 2 equal parts, which are joined
Binoculars, glasses, scales, scissors, jeans, tights.
2. Antics,arms,annals,archives
3. The Commons, contents, customs, earnings, wages, goods, outskirts (окраина), greens, holidays, manners, stairs, surroundings, thanks, The Middle Ages, whereabouts, clothes, looks, odds (преимущества), congratulations, people, police, lodgings (проживание), premises (помещение)
4. The East Indies, The Hebrides, The Netherlands...
5.
Compass компас
Experience опыт
Wood древесина
Scale масштаб
Work работа
Paper бумага
Custom обычай
Glass стекло
People люди Compasses циркуль
Experiences воспоминания
Woods лес
Scales весы
Works завод
Papers газета
Customs таможня
Glasses очки
Peoples народы
Aircraft-aircraft,craft-crafts
Nouns which refer to a group of people
Crew Family
Staff Jury
Army Team
Club Company
Audience Council
Class Crowd