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so I was at the airport the other day and I overheard a passenger in front of me in the queue say I have two luggages to put on the plane now let me ask you a question is that correct two luggages no it isn't luggage is an uncountable noun and so is baggage there are some English nouns that don't have a plural so we need to use another words to count them okay it sounds confusing but it's really quite straightforward and to find out how stay tuned [Music] hello and welcome to let them talk the channel that goes deeper into everything about the English language and what I wanted to talk to you about today is English nouns without a plural yes it would be nice if you could just put an S at the end of every now and then forget about it and go and do something else more interesting unfortunately it's it's not quite so simple and I thought today that I'd share with you some of these words and show you how to make them into a plural okay so the first word is information yes it has no plural I teach English in France and I hear students saying informations every day but it's not correct okay instead just place a piece off before information when you want to count it I heard an interesting piece of information today I have two pieces of information for you okay let's look at the word news and news like all the words on this list is always singular even though news ends in an S okay the news is good and again you count it with pieces or you can use items I have two items of news to discuss okay luggage or baggage again you can count with pieces or items you can carry two items of hand luggage onto the plane you can count suitcases and bags but not luggage you only count pieces of luggage research this was a piece of research that won the scientists the Nobel Prize okay equipment for example check every piece of equipment is working before you start the experiment advice you're learning English I've got two pieces of advice for you yes you cannot say an advice it's always always a piece of advice okay so remember that for all of these words you can say sum which can precede countable or uncountable nouns so some advice some information some news etc that's always okay right okay just give you another example furniture you can't count furniture you can count tables and chairs you can't count furniture again you have to say a piece of furniture or or item of furniture and homework it's another example a piece of homework evidence piece of evidence okay but sometimes we don't use piece or item we use another word okay so less than some of these we have trousers and scissors a pair of trousers a pair of scissors money is uncountable you can count coins you can get pounds you can count euros and counting dollars but money is uncountable bread is uncountable you can't have bread you have a loaf of bread a loaf of bread the poorest of loaves of bread so next time you go to a bakery ask for a loaf of bread luck has no plural you say a stroke of luck winning the lottery was a stroke of luck salt a grain of salt okay I put a few grains of salt on my salad a speck a speck of dust okay so dust is kind of specks clean the room and when I get back I don't want to see a speck of dust okay and Pat my favorite a dollop of jam or cream for breakfast I have a slice of crusty bread with a dollop strawberry jam I love the word dollop if you learn one word today learn the word dollop in fact there are quite a lot more of these words that make non plural words into plurals so I'll leave a link in the description with a list okay well there you are I hope you found that useful and thank you for watching more English language videos [Music] [Music]