Nouns with Plural Form Only

In general, a noun has two forms: singular and plural. However, some nouns are used in plural only. In regular communications you should avoid their singular forms that probably confuse your listeners or readers.

We summarize these words into 4 groups:

1. Things consisting of a pair of stuffs
2. Nouns ending with "-ing"
3. Other nouns that hardly used in singular
4. Use plural meanings in phrase

These nouns are usually to express plural meaning so they aren't used in singular except in rare cases.

In some fixed phrases, the nouns are usually in plural though these nouns can be singular in other scenarios.



Last but not least, we show some nouns look like plural, e.g. end with "-s", but are absolutely singular nouns. Don't be confused by them.