English: Interesting facts about Noun

Interesting facts about Noun

• Form/Use

**The nouns having singular form and singular use always.

Ex- hair, rice, tea, money, fish

** Singular form but plural use.

Ex- people, police , jury.

** Plural form but singular use.

Ex- Mathematics, Physics, civics, gallows

** Plural form and plural use.

Ex- trousers, glasses, scissors, twisters

• When nouns measurements are preceded by numbers or digits, the measurement doesn’t pluralize.

Ex –     2 liters (wrong format)

            2 liter (right form)

• Nouns having different meaning in different no.

Ex- wood, woods

      People, peoples

      Water, waters

      Quarters, quarters

      Custom, customs

      Wage, wages

      Iron, irons

• Some nouns having different meaning in different plural form.

Ex- formula – formulae, formulas

      Index – indices, indexes