In this post we are going to learn some nouns which don’t have plural form? And in this post will also learn how to use these nouns in a sentence?
Some nouns in English are ‘uncountable’. This means they do not have a plural form. Some common uncountable nouns are:
Advice, advertising, work, food, furniture,
water, fun, sugar, garbage, homework, information, knowledge, money, love, news, honesty, shopping, time, traffic, travel, luck.
With uncountable nouns, you must use:
The singular form:
- Food
- Information
- Money
- A little
- Amount of
- Much
- Some
- The amount of trees in the forest is decreasing every year.
- How much book do you have?
A singular Verb: There was already a little garbage in the box.
If a noun is uncountable, you cannot use:
A plural form: advices, furnitures, garbages, informations, knowledges.
A, an: an advice, a garbage, a knowledge.
A few, many, number of: A few shopping, many traffic, the number of knowledge
A number: Three travels, four furniture.
A plural verb: There was a little garbage in the box.
A plural verb: There was a little garbage in the box.
If you want to add a number to an uncountable noun, you can use: A piece of, some, a few pieces of:
A piece of advice,
Three pieces of book,
A few pieces of pencil.