Two special groups

• Clothes & things people wear
•  Tools & some things people use

Ex: glasses

Pants

Pliers

Binoculars

•  Refer to a single piece of cloting/ tool

Some + plural noun

A pair of + plural noun

•  Refer to more than one

Number + plural noun

Quantifier + plural noun

Agreement:

1 – A pair of +plural noun - singular verb form

2 – A pair of + plural noun - plural verb form

            Clause 1                                 clause 2

1 – New pair of shoes brings happiness for those in need

2 – The put on a pair of shoes that were by the door

Collective nouns

It refers to a group of people or things

Agreement: Singular or plural verb

Concrete

A – Count nouns/Group nouns

Ex: A set of tools

      A group of students

B – Mass nouns (Nom-count/uncountable nouns)

           Typically refer to substances

•           Solid – butter, rock
•           Liquid – oil, ink, gas
•           Gas – smoke, butane