[Grammar] Material Noun(s)

[kadioguy]

[From an English language program]

[Source https://youtu.be/k6VSxgshyA4?t=129]
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Should "... noun" be "... nouns" in them?

I mean, should we use the singular form or the plural form when introducing things like that?

 

[Rover_KE]

nouns

 

[slevlife]

A heading where you introduce, e.g., proper nouns would normally be written in plural ("Proper Nouns").

But a list of the types of nouns could use plural or singular form. These screenshots seem to show a list of noun types. But then, if you'd used singular and you wanted to show a list of examples like in the screenshots, you'd probably want to use a word like "examples" in plural before jumping to the list.

So it's hard to answer your question without being able to read all the Chinese. It would be better to ask the question with a fully translated version.

 

[kadioguy]

[From the same source]
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Do you think that the four parts are OK?

A friend told me:

(1) must be singular, because this meaning of number is uncountable, but you could drop the optionally. As for dropping the, I have no preference either way.

(2) normally this should be singular, because it's uncountable, but that they surround it with quotes tells me they're using the normal, countable sense of number to explain what the grammatical sense means, so it doesn't sound wrong in this instance.

(3) both of these should be singular, because the grammatical sense is uncountable.

(4) again, this should be uncountable singular otherwise you're referring to like 1/2/3 rather than singular/plural.
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I agree with them. However, I would also like to you hear your opinions.

 

[Tdol]

Singular numbers can imply the possibility of plural numbers, which doesn't really account for the uncountable nouns.