Most nouns have distinct singular and plural forms. However, there are a number of special words that are spelled and pronounced exactly the same way in the singular and plural forms. The way to pronounce these words is one for the singular and plural, and the rest of the words apply to these examples:
- We received one advice of the company.
- We received five advice of the company.
- This Deer is so beautiful.
- Those Deer are so beautiful.
Nouns with the same singular and plural form
In the English language there are a group of nouns that have the same singular and plural forms. Here is a list of some examples of these names.
- Accommodation
- Advice
- Alms
- Aircraft
- Aluminum
- Barracks
- Bison
- Binoculars
- Bourgeois
- Cannon
- Cattle
- Chalk
- Chassis
- Clippers
- Clothing
- Concrete
- Correspondence
- Crossroads
- Deer
- Dice
- Doldrums
- Education
- Elk
- Eyeglasses
- Fish (numbers of)
- Flour
- Food
- Furniture
- Gallows
- Grapefruit
- Greenfly
- Headquarters
- Help
- Jeans
- Knickers
- Knowledge
- Kudos
- Luggage
- Moose
- Mullet
- News
- Offspring
- Oxygen
- Pants
- Pyjamas
- Pliers
- Police
- Date
- Salmon
- Scissors
- Series
- Shambles
- Sheep
- Shrimp
- Sugar
- Tongs
- Trousers
- Tuna
- You
- Wheat
- Wood