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Cool Equipment - singular or plural

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Kindly tell me whether "Equipment" is singular or plural.

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Murli
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Default Re: Equipment - singular or plural

dear,
This word is used as both singular and plural , but it is plural without " s".

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Default Re: Equipment - singular or plural

It's uncountable so it takes a singular verb. To make it plural, you'd need to talk of 'pieces of equipment'.
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