{"id":165,"date":"2024-09-08T13:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:52:54","slug":"nouns-used-only-in-the-plural-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/2024\/09\/08\/nouns-used-only-in-the-plural-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Nouns used only in the plural in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. The names of many paired objects are used, as in Russian, only in the plural: scissors, trousers, spectacles, scales, tongs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><br \/>\nThese scissors are very sharp.<br \/>\nWhere are my spectacles?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166\" src=\"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sush080924.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sush080924.jpg 613w, https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/sush080924-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. The following nouns, unlike the Russian language, are used only in the plural: goods, contents, clothes, proceeds, wages, riches:<br \/>\nThe contents of the letter have not been changed.<br \/>\nHis clothes were wet as he had been caught in the rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. All these and similar nouns agree with plural verbs:<br \/>\nThese scales are not correct.<br \/>\nThe trousers were made in Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. The noun people is used with a plural meaning:<br \/>\nThere were many people in the park.<br \/>\nHowever, when the noun people means (people, nation), it is used in both singular and plural, taking the plural form peoples:<br \/>\nHow different are the beliefs of various peoples across the world!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The names of many paired objects are used, as in Russian, only in the plural: scissors, trousers, spectacles, scales, tongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[42,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-angliiskii","8":"category-inostrannyi","9":"tag-noun","10":"tag-plural"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}