Rules of noun

A noun is a word which is used as a name of a thing , a place or a person.

There are five kinds of noun :-
1. Proper noun
2. Common noun
3. Collective noun
4. Material noun
5. Abstract noun

Rules of noun are following:-

Following nouns are always plural

Gentry
Poultry
Peasantry
Cattle
Police
Alms
Annals
Arears
Riches
Bowels
Guts
Stairs
Surroundings
Thanks
Congratulations
Pants
Pantaloons
Trowsers
Knickness

Example:-

  1. The gentry of the place are cooperative
  2. I do not like these poultry
 3.They are coming from stairs

Rule 2.

Those nouns are always singular.

Hair
Bread
Advice
Offspring
Scenary
Poetry
Information
Furniture
News
Luggage

Note:-
1 if sentence says more than one thing then we have to use items of, articles of, pieces of ,kinds of .

2. If we talking about one then we use an item, an article , a piece of, a kind of.


Example:-


1.The scenery of Kashmir is charming.

2. I bought two pieces of furniture.

Rule 3

These nouns are same in both condition singular or plural.


  1. Sheep
  2. Deer
  3. Swine
  4. Innings
  5. Spices
  6. Series
  7. Pice

Example:-

I saw 3 sheep and 1 dear

Rule 4


Rule: Nouns expressing number like hundred, dozen, score etc are used in singular with numerical adjectives.
These nouns are:
Hundred, Pair, Score, Stone, Dozen, Thousand, Million, Billion, Gross,  Etc.
Ex:
  • Sumit bought four dozen apples.
  • Samir got five hundred rupees.
  • Deepika has two pair of sandles.

Rule: Plural noun is used after One of, Neither of, Either of, and Each of.
Ex:
  • One of my friends is an Engineer.
  • Either of them will come.
  • Neither of the students hasRu failed.

Rule: Some nouns look plural but have singular meaning. Singular verb is used with them.

Summons, News, Politics, Physics, Economics, Mechanics, Mathematics, Measles, Ethics, Rickets, Billiards, Draughts, Innings, etc.
Ex:
  • I have a good news.
  • Economics is my favourite subject.
  • It was a good innings by India.

Rule: Some nouns look singular but have plural meaning. Plural verb is used with them.
These nouns are:
Infantry, Children, Cattle, Cavalry, Poultry, Peasantry, Gentry, Police, Clergy, Etc.
Ex:
  • Children are playing in the ground.
  • Cattle are not allowed to enter in the ground.
  • Police are coming

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