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Singular number

Plural number

a man, a woman, a foot, a tooth, a goose, a mouse, a louse,

an ox, a child

men, women, feet, teeth, geese, mice, lice, oxen, children

a radius, a corpus, a formula, a bacterium,

a crisis, a criterion, an index, a bureau

radii (или radiuses), corpora, formulae (или formulas), bacteria,

crises, criteria, indices, bureaux

a deer, a sheep, a salmon, a trout, a cod, an aircraft, a spacecraft, a crossroads, a means, a series, a species, a works

deer, sheep, salmon, trout, cod, aircraft, spacecraft,

crossroads, means, series, species, works

Special Cases

Only Singular number

Only Plural number

advice, information, news, measles, mumps physics, knowledge, furniture, luggage, gymnastics, athletics, bowls,

billiards, dominoes, darts, draughts

annals, archives, arms (weapons), belongings, clothes, cattle, poultry, scissors, dregs, earnings, wages, goods, trousers, binoculars, shorts, shoes, gloves, pyjamas, glasses, spectacles, earrings, socks, outskirts, premises, tights, remains, pliers, riches, surroundings, thanks, the tropics, whereabouts, people, police, stairs, (good)looks,

hat – hats bus – buses glass - glasses

boy – boys box – boxes bench - benches

country – countries brush – brushes match - matches

hero – heroes але: piano - pianos

potato – potatoes photo - photos

volcano – volcanoes stereo - stereos

tomato – tomatoes kilo - kilos

echo – echoes radio - radios

thief – thieves wife – wives але: roof – roofs proof - proofs

leaf – leaves shelf – shelves belief – beliefs serf - serfs

knife – knives wolf – wolves chief – chiefs safe - safes

life – lives half – halves gulf – gulfs cliff - cliffs

means a means of transport – various means of transport

series a television series – many television series

species a species of birds – different species of birds

crossroads this crossroads – these crossroads

works (factory) a gas works – two gas works

Тільки в однині

linen progress money sugar behaviour

furniture business scenery bread evidence

knowledge information wood beef research

advice trouble weather macaroni trouble

luggage accommodation sand salt music

baggage equipment damage chaos spaghetti

permission traffic work justice luck

rubbish hair food machinery jewellery

news, mumps, measles,

economics, mathematics, physics, statistics

billiards, dominoes, darts, bowls

gymnastics, athletics

politics, tactics, optics, ethics

Тільки в множині

sights riches savings earnings lodgings clothes

goods people outskirts stairs poultry trousers

sweets police slums scissors cattle jeans

arms contents wages spectacles congratulations tights

Як в однині так і в множині

family crowd congress company clergy

team jury government crew gentry

group public committee board

staff army audience delegation

Singular number

Plural number

Proper Nouns

Tim’s dog, Alice’s cat, James’s mother,

St. Paul’s, St. Mary’s, Mr. Baker’s house

the Bakers’ house

Animate Nouns

a girl’s hat, the boy’s dog, a lady’s handbag,

a man’s suit, a child’s toy, a cat’s tail

a girls’ school, the boys’ dogs, a ladies’ room,

men’s suits, children’s books, cats’ tails

Inanimate Nouns

a minute’s walk, a day’s work, a week’s stay, today’s conference, yesterday’s paper, the company’s office,

the government’s proposal, my family’s welfare

a five minutes’ walk, a three days’ trip, a few weeks’ stay,

the companies’ offices, the governments’ proposals,

my families’ welfare

Nouns Determiners

Countable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

Singular number

Plural number

The Indefinite Article

a boy, an apple

The Definite Article

the boy

the boys

the tea

The Possessive Pronoun

my apple

my apples

my tea

The Demonstrative Pronoun

this boy, that apple

these boys, those apples

this tea, that money

Question Words

What boy?

Which apple?

Whose book?

What boys?

Which apples?

Whose books?

What tea?

Which money?

Whose money?

The Quantifiers

some boys, any boys

many boys, few boys

a few boys, more boys

most boys, a lot of boys

some tea, any tea

much tea, little tea

a little tea, more tea

most tea, a lot of tea

some/somebody/someone/somewhere

в стверджувальних реченнях;

у проханнях і пропозиціях

any/anybody/anyone/anything/

anywhere

в заперечувальних реченнях;

в питальних реченнях;

в реченнях з hardly, barely,

scarcely, without;

в значенні «будь-який, який-небудь»

no/none/nobody/no one/nothing/

nowhere

в стверджувальних реченнях для

вираження заперечення

many, few, a few з обчислювальними іменниками у множині

many/few/a few problems

much, little, a little з необчислювальними іменниками

much/little/a little money/noise