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    Default goods, valuables, manners ... are they treated as plurals or singulars?

    There is a goods or there are goods ?

    This valuables or these valuable?

    In such a manners or in such manners?



    Are they plurals or singulars?
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    Default Re: goods, valuables, manners ... are they treated as plurals or singulars?

    Quote Originally Posted by wotcha View Post
    There is a goods or there are goods ?

    This valuables or these valuable?

    In such a manners or in such manners?
    You try first, wotcha.
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    Default Re: goods, valuables, manners ... are they treated as plurals or singulars?

    Quote Originally Posted by 5jj View Post
    You try first, wotcha.


    yes !
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    Default Re: goods, valuables, manners ... are they treated as plurals or singulars?

    You could have answered the first two questions yourself by looking up these words.

    goods - Definition from Longman English Dictionary Online

    valuables - Definition from Longman English Dictionary Online
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    Default Re: goods, valuables, manners ... are they treated as plurals or singulars?

    Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Sandwich View Post
    You could have answered the first two questions yourself by looking up these words.

    goods - Definition from Longman English Dictionary Online

    valuables - Definition from Longman English Dictionary Online

    Wow I didn't know there is a longman.com!

    Thank you so much !
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