Hello everybody
Q: What do I use with uncountable nouns (is or are) or both of them, like furniture?
"The furniture is new", not "are".
Thank you very much, but not all of the uncountable word used with is, am l right?
Thank you very much, but not all of the uncountable word used with is, am l right?
I am not a teacher!
An uncountable noun always goes with singular verbs! But be aware that a Noun can be either uncountable or countable one, it depends on the actual context. Here is an example, let's take the word furniture and you want to describe different types of furniture, Vietnamese furniture, Japanese furniture, .. etc. You can say Vietnamese and Japanese furnitures differ from each other.
(If I am wrong please let me know, thanks.)
What about police or cattle?
The cattle is grazing in the field? I'd use are.
The police are following up leads.