Which words are used only in the singular. Nouns that are used only in the singular and only in the plural

There are nouns that are used only in the singular and only in the plural.

As in Russian, there are nouns in English that are used either only in the singular or only in the plural.

1. Uncountable nouns, as a rule, are used only in the singular. For example, salt - salt, copper - copper, patience - patience. That is, abstract and real nouns usually belong to this series of nouns.

2. In English, there are a number of nouns that can only be used in the singular, although in Russian we can use them in the plural. Remember the following series of nouns:

Knowledge - knowledge, knowledge
advice - advice, tips
progress - success, success
information - information, messages, information

Consider examples with these nouns.
Give him the benefit of your knowledge - Share your knowledge with him.
Father "s advice helped me - Father's advice helped me.
You make progress in football - You are making progress in football.
We have information that you were there yesterday - We have information that you were there yesterday.

3. Remember that a noun news - news, news refers to the singular, although this word has a plural form. Study the following example.
Don "t tell me the bad news - Don't tell me bad news.

4. Sciences that end in -ics should be used in the singular, even though they are plural. For example, such nouns include physics, mathematics. Study the following example.
Statistics is a necessary branch of learning for an economist - Statistics is a necessary discipline for an economist.

5. In Russian, the words hair - hair and money - money are used only in the plural, but it should be remembered that these nouns in English are used only in the singular.

Consider the following examples.
My hair is curly - My hair is wavy.
This money is yours - This money is yours.

6. In Russian, a noun holiday has only the plural form, while in English this noun can only be used in the singular.
My vacation was wonderful - My vacation was wonderful.

7. Word fruit in Russian it can be both singular and plural, however, in English this noun is used only in the singular.
Fruit is healthy - Fruits are healthy.

But in this rule, you need to take into account that if we are talking about different types of fruits, then you need to use the plural form - fruits. Study the following example.
I bought peaches, pears and other fruits - I bought peaches, pears and other fruits.

8. There are a number of nouns in Russian that are used only in the plural. These nouns, as a rule, denote paired objects. For example, scales, pants, scissors etc. In English, they are also used only in the plural form. Study the following examples.

These scissors are made of steel - These scissors are made of steel.
My trousers are black - My trousers are black.
These scales are wrong - These scales are inaccurate.

9. Study the following series of nouns:

Arms - weapons
goods - goods, goods
proceeds - proceeds
clothes - clothes
riches - wealth, riches
stairs - stairs.

The above nouns in Russian, as a rule, are used in the singular, but in English they are used only in the plural form. Study examples with these nouns.

These arms are highly explosive - This weapon is explosive.
The goods were counterfeit - The goods (goods) were (and) counterfeit (and).
The proceeds of our shop were in a bank - The proceeds of our shop were in the bank.
Your clothes are dirty - Your clothes are dirty.
The riches are not so important for some people - Wealth is not so important for some people.
The stairs are made of wood - The stairs are made of wood.

10. In Russian, nouns wage and content are used only in the singular form, while in English these nouns are usually used in the plural form - wages, contents.

The contents of the book are not understandable for reader - The contents of the book are incomprehensible to the reader.
My wages are low wage low.

11. Study the following nouns:

oats - oats
potatoes - potatoes
carrots - carrots
onions - bow.

The above nouns are used in the plural, although in Russian they have the singular form. Study the sentences with these nouns.

Oats were imported a month ago - Oats were imported from abroad a month ago.
Potatoes are used for different dishes - Potatoes are used for different dishes.
Carrots are necessary ingredient for palaw - Carrots are a necessary ingredient for pilaf.
Onions were cut an hour ago - Onions were cut an hour ago.

But it should be remembered that these nouns are used in the singular, if one unit of something is meant. For example, a carrot - carrot (one root).

12. The last rule of this topic refers to the noun people - people. In English, it is used in the plural.

There are very many people in the theater today - There are a lot of people in the theater today.

If the word people means a nation or people, then this noun can be used both in the plural and in the singular. In the plural, it sounds like peoples. Study the following examples.

The people of a neighboring country is on strike - The people of a neighboring country are on strike.
During the war the peoples of our country combined their efforts - During the war, the peoples of our country joined their efforts.

Everyone knows that nouns are declined, that is, they change in cases and numbers. But does the phrase from the song performed by Marina Khlebnikova sound right:

Can I pour you a cup of coffee that invigorates you?

There are exceptions to every rule. So, the word "coffee" refers to indeclinable nouns. It is not used in the plural and does not change by case. The correct usage is "a cup of coffee". The topic of our article will be such exceptions - nouns that have only the singular form. Let's consider in more detail.

Nouns: number

It is not only in mathematics. Nouns also have the category of number. Knowing this means using them correctly both in speech and in writing. Most nouns denote things that can be counted. For this, the Russian language has categories of both singular and plural. The most difficult thing is to understand that there are nouns that have only the singular form, or, conversely, only the plural. At the same time, other nuances appear in speech.

So, there are cases when plurality is expressed by the form of a noun in the singular. An example is the phrase: "The enemy will not pass!". This clearly refers to the enemy army, and not one specific person.

There is a predominant use of individual nouns in the plural:

• gossip;
• rein;
• skis.

Although this is a part of speech that changes in numbers, and the use of words is quite acceptable:

• gossip;
• rein;
• ski.

The most common nouns that do not have a plural form are:

• real;
• collective;
• abstract;

Let's take a closer look at this using examples.

Designation of substance, material

What are these words? Singular nouns denoting objects with a real value. There are quite a few of them, which is confirmed by examples:

• sugar;
• milk;
• petrol;
• water;
• asphalt;
• cotton;
• ceramics;
• porcelain.

From these nouns it is impossible to form another form, including the plural. You cannot substitute the endings -ya, -a, -i, -s with them.

Nouns only singular: examples of collectives

The names of sets of identical objects or persons are what we call collective nouns. They bring together those who have some common feature:

• students (everyone who studies at universities);
• youth (part of the population under the age of 30);
• youth (young people from 14 to 21 years old);
• childhood (from 0 to 18 years).

Collective nouns that have only the singular form can also refer to inanimate objects:

• foliage;
• spruce forest;
• Flora.

It just needs to be remembered.

abstract nouns

These are words that cannot be represented objectively, as well as counted. These include titles:

• quality or trait (youth, darkness, dexterity, blueness);
• states or actions (mowing, cutting, fighting, anger, delight).

How to learn to define nouns only in the singular? Examples of tasks will help to cope with the task.

So, you can pick up antonyms for words that, by analogy, also cannot be used in the plural:

• running around;
• force;
• aggression;
• stuffiness;
• honesty.

(Answers: walking, weakness, calmness, freshness, lies).

From a literary text in three columns, you can write out all nouns according to the principle:

• used in two numbers;
• only in the singular;
• only in the plural.

Thanks to this, it will become clearer that there are much more of the former.

Features: inanimate noun, proper

The singular for proper names is more common. They are rarely used in plural form. This often applies to surnames, if you have to single out a whole group of people according to the principle of kinship. Example:

1. Only the Galkins, Lazarevs and Ivanovskys lived in a small village.
2. The Kuznetsov family was distinguished by enviable health.

If the proper name acts as the only object and is inanimate, then it is mandatory to use it in the singular:

• Moscow.
• Volga.
• Mercury.
• Ural.
• Uruguay.

This also applies to compound names:

• "First channel";
• program "Around the World";
• Mona Lisa painting.

But this is not a complete list. Of course, these are not all nouns that have only the singular form.

Should be remembered

In Russian, words ending in -mya do not have plural forms. These nouns are easy to remember:

• crown;
• burden;
• udder;
• flame.

But the tribe is the tribes, the seed is the seeds.

So, we list the nouns of only the singular, examples of which are presented in the table.

Another condition by which it can be determined that a noun does not have a plurality is the absence of a combination with

Class: 6 "B"

Teacher: Tatarinova A.V.

Lesson topic: "Nouns that have the form of only the singular or only the plural."

Lesson structure:

1. Organizational moment. Psychological attitude

2. Checking the assimilation of the previously studied.

3. The stage of discovering new knowledge.

4. Work on the topic of the lesson. Statement of the problem situation (introduction to the topic).

5. Learning new material.

6. Consolidation of knowledge on the topic covered. Working with the textbook

7. Generalization and systematization of knowledge.

8. Homework.

9. Summing up the lesson.

Lesson Objectives:

1) correctional educational : the formation of students' knowledge of nouns that have the form of only the singular or only the plural.

2) correctional and educational : the formation of positive educational motivation and the development of interest in the study of the Russian language.

3) correctional-developing : correction and development of speech, attention, thinking.

Planned result:

know: nouns that have the form of only the singular or only the plural;

be able to: distinguish between nouns that have only the singular form, and nouns that have only the plural form, correctly form difficult plural forms;

learn: exactly, it is appropriate to use nouns in speech that have the form of only the singular or only the plural.

Equipment: projector, screen, computer, computer presentation, didactic material (cards with differentiated tasks), "emoticons" for reflection, Russian language textbook - Galunchikova N.G., Yakubovskaya E.V. Russian language. Textbook for the 6th grade of special (correctional) educational institutions of the VIII type, Moscow, "Prosveshchenie", 2014.

Organizing time. Psychological mood.
Everyone is here for the lesson!
Wake up! Do not be lazy!
To achieve a lot
You need to study well!

Exercise "Pendulum head" ("Small pendulum")

Starting position: stand up straight, legs slightly narrower than shoulder width.

Lower your head down, look at the floor - a sharp short breath. Raise your head up, look at the ceiling - a sharp short breath. The exhalation leaves passively in the intervals between breaths, while the head does not stop in the middle. In no case should you strain your neck.
2. Checking the assimilation of previously learned.

Guys, tell me what two forms of numbers have nouns. (Nouns can be singular or plural.)

Group the given nouns ( book, lessons, flower, tree) depending on their number and fill in the missing form of the number. How many columns will there be? ( Two columns: singular and plural).

Let's check what happened. (Book - books, lesson - lessons, flower - flowers, tree - trees).

Now let's read the text on the slide:

We offer to bake for teabiscuit. Yeast you won't need. Whisk two eggs with a glassSahara . Add half a cupsour cream andkefir . Add somesoda and pourflour. kneaddough and roll it out. Cut out the shapes and bake them. Sprinkle finished cookies with gratedchocolate. Serve totea, milk , cream. Bon appetit!

Write out the highlighted words in the nominative case in our columns, depending on their number.

Have you succeeded?

3. The stage of discovery of new knowledge.

The teacher helps the students to come to the conclusion that nouns kefir, sugar, cookies, sour cream, soda, flour, dough, chocolate, tea, milk cannot be pluralised, and nouns yeast and cream cannot be put in the singular form.

Read the text of the textbook on page 111. Does this information match our conclusions? ( Yes, it matches).

We must remember how vocabulary words are spelled kefir, cookies, sour cream, chocolate. (On the desk).

4. Work on the topic of the lesson. Statement of the problem situation (introduction to the topic).

Guys, how would you define the topic of our today's lesson. ( Nouns that have only singular or only plural form).

Why do we need to know this? (To correctly speak and write such words, to be literate people).

5. Learning new material.

1) - And if you still need to say about sour cream or milk in the plural, then how can you get out of the situation? (Students provide their own suggestions.)

Look at the textbook picture on page 111. (The picture shows packs of milk, kefir, cottage cheese, sour cream. Students come to the conclusion that the phrase can be said: several packs of milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, kefir).

2) Look at the pictures and unscramble the words. What is their feature?

puzzles

What are the meanings of nouns that have only the singular form?

1. Names of many identical persons, objects: youth, children, students, foliage.

2. Names of substances, materials, food products: gasoline, honey, milk, kerosene.

3. Names of plants: peas, cabbage, carrots, rye.

4. Names of qualities, properties: whiteness, youth, darkness, freshness.

5. Names of actions and states: reading, walking, surprise, swimming.

6. Own names of single objects: Moscow, Volga, Ryazan, Oka.

Exercise for the eyes "Semitsvetik"

3) - And now let's try to solve the crossword puzzle. If we have any difficulties, then those for whom it was homework will help us.

Crossword

Appendix 1.

What unites all these words? ( All of them are used only in the plural form).

- What are the meanings of nouns that have only a plural form?

Names of paired or multi-part objects:

pants, scales, gates, scissors, stretchers, glasses, rakes, vise.

The name of materials or their waste, residues: whitewash, perfumes, canned food (con- (lat.) “so”, servo - store (lat.)), sawdust, bran.

Names of games: burners, tag, blind man's blind man's, chess.

Names of time intervals: day, weekdays, holidays.

Geographical names: Athens, Alps, Carpathians, Mytishchi, Sochi.

6. Consolidation of knowledge on the topic covered. Work with the textbook.

1) - Study ex. 184 on page 112. Plan your work. Tell us about how you will work. ( Students plan their activities

1) name the objects in the picture; 2) identify the missing letters in the words from the box; 3) distribute the words from the frame into groups).

Oral work with exercise 184:

name the words shown in the picture, determine their number ( glasses, scissors, tongs, rakes - these words have only the plural form);

determine the letters missing in the words from the box.

Written work with exercise 184 in pairs:

select words from the box according to these groups: nouns that have the form of only the singular: 1st pair - product names, 2nd pair - names of metals; nouns that have only the plural form: the 3rd pair are the names of products, the 4th pair are the names of tools, the 5th pair are the names of games, all together are the names of liquid substances).

Control stage.

Checking work. Each pair reads out a group of words written out by them. Students determine the correctness of the task performed by each other.

PHYSICAL MINUTE

If you hear a noun that is only singular, then squat, if it is a noun that is only plural, clap above your head.

Lemonade, scissors, oxygen, hide and seek, courage, holidays, chess, silver, youth, joy, sled.

"Add a word."

Heroically Lena with laziness

Fought all day

But, much to my regret,

Defeated Lena _________.

Olya tortured the comb,

I did my hair for school.

I tormented, I tormented

Yes, it turned out _________.

Shaking and shaking the briefcase Taras,

To find notebooks

But notebooks every time

They played __________ with him.

The quarter has started again

The clock ticked

And the question haunts me

Is _______________ coming soon?

Students are asked to find and write out nouns that have only one number. The work is checked out loud. (Laziness - singular, scarecrow - singular, hide and seek - plural, holidays - plural)

Do you often shout: “Hurrah! Holidays!" This simple earthly word owes its appearance to the sky.

The ancient Romans called the holiday Sirius, the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major. On the brightest days (mid-July to late August) The sun passed through this constellation. Then they took a break in classes, holidays came. At first, only summer holidays were called holidays. Then the word holiday began to refer to every break in the teaching: summer, winter, spring. That's why we say now: summer holidays, winter holidays, spring holidays.

- Determine if the number of nouns is formed correctly.

1. uprising - uprisings

2. gate - gate

3. silver - silver

4. thaw - thaw

5. quote - quotes

6. canned food - canned food

7. beets - beets

8. sorrel - sorrel

We check.

True: 1. uprising - uprisings

5. quote - quotes

Musical dictation.

Now we will play with you, we will raise our mood a little. What makes us feel good? (Music). You need to find plural nouns in the proposed passage from the song, as well as guess the song itself.

Oh you canopy, my canopy, my new canopy

Canopies are new, maple, patterned.

If I scratch my head, it doesn't matter!
In the head of my sawdust - yes! Yes! Yes!

What form are the words in? canopy and sawdust? (In the plural form).

Generalization and systematization of knowledge.

What new did you learn in the lesson?

(Based on the lesson materials, students answer the question)

Homework.

And now homework. It will be individual for everyone.

Summing up the lesson.

Final word from the teacher.

Guys, you are all great. They coped well with the difficulties that arose in the lesson. (Grading).

Now evaluate your mood and work in the lesson. When leaving, on the board with the help of a “smiley”, evaluate your well-being. (The slide shows “smilies” and comments to them: a cheerful “smiley” - “I was interested!”; a gloomy “smiley” - “I was bored ...”; a sad “smiley” - “It was difficult for me”).

Appendix 2

Additional tasks.

1. Write off and solve riddles. Write the answers in two columns.

unit Plural

Well, who's ready with his two swords

Cross over a piece of paper? Scissors.

From this side and from this side

Horses and elephants in cages.

But they can't resist

To not fight each other. Chess.

First you fly from the mountain to them,

And then you pull them uphill. Sled.

White as snow. In honor of everyone.

It got into my mouth and disappeared there. Sugar.

Wooden horses gallop through the snow

And they don't fall into the snow. Skis.

The white stone melted and left traces on the board. Chalk.

The red maiden sits in a dungeon, and the scythe is on the street. Carrot.

White stone from the mountain
Always on the table.
Who does not eat it
He doesn't know the taste. Salt.

Fill in the column of the explanatory dictionary. Write the resulting sentences in your notebook.

Agricultural implement with rare

tines for raking hay.

Metal tool for

pulling out nails.

Cutting tool with two sharp

Clamping tool

material.

Write the games you know in two columns.

Board games Outdoor games

Mark the nouns that have only one number.

Write down phrases in two columns: 1) with nouns that have only the singular form; 2) with nouns that have only a plural form.

Birch firewood, early frosts, beeswax, painted railings, oak furniture, road dust, replaced glasses, bought watches, accurate scales, toilet soap, lilac blossomed, cloudy weather, perfect wheat, holidays began.

unit Plural

Write down phrases in two columns: 1) with nouns that have only the singular form; 2) with nouns that have only a plural form.

Leather shoes, small money, blue ink, snow-white underwear, carefree laughter, chestnut curls, strong friendships, fun name days, extra chores, cauliflower, French perfume, linden honey, hot pepper.

unit Plural

There are many minerals in the bowels of the earth: (...). 2. The grocery store received the necessary products: (...). 3. In the summer we picked berries in the forest: (...).

Complete the sentences using nouns that only have the singular form.

Positive human qualities: kindness, …., …. ; negative qualities: rudeness, …., …. .

In the garden we sowed carrots, …., … and planted potatoes, …., …. .

Write down the nouns in the following order:

Used only in the singular;

Used only in the plural;

Used in singular and plural.

Territory, skid, grove, holidays, oil, chess, relatives, pincers, twilight, name, teacher, bottom, cream, hay, sugar, gate, ink.

Solve riddles. Write them down along with the clues.

Two ends, two rings, carnations in the middle. (Scissors)

Without legs, but walking, without arms, but pointing. (Clock)

They always go, but they never leave the place. (Clock)

Round, white, cute all over the world. (Money/coins)

Toothy, not biting. (Rake)

I'll lay it down in the evening, I'll lie quietly all night. (Gate on constipation)

What words in Russian are used only in the singular?

Only in the singular are used:

• real nouns: oil, sour cream, milk, zinc, and others;
• abstract nouns: evil, joy, sadness, and so on;
• collective nouns: childhood, teaching and more;
• proper names: Minsk, Azerbaijan as an example.

• Here's what I found and want to add:

  only used in the singular

  most real nouns (buckwheat, salt)

  most abstract nouns (sadness, joy)

  most collective nouns (children, trifle)

  most proper names.

  Of course, most of the words in great and mighty have both singular and plural. But there are also nouns that are used only in the singular or only in the plural.

  In this case, we are interested in precisely those nouns that can and are used only in the singular. These are the following words:

  • milk, butter, kindness, kindness, evil, anger, all twelve months (January, February, March, etc.).

• The following words are used only in the singular in Russian:

  • the youth,
  • mischief,
  • iron,
  • unity,
  • piggy,
  • humanity,
  • kerosene,
  • white,
  • astonishment,
  • highway,
  • dressing table,
  • fear,
  • nap,
  • foliage

• The Russian language for most words provides both singular and plural forms. But there are still words that do not have a plural, but are used only in the singular. These include the following categories of words:

  1) Names of real nouns. For example: tea, md, buckwheat, milk;

  2) Collective nouns. For example: children, relatives, trifle;

  3) Proper names. For example: Moscow, Luna, Belgorod;

  4) Such abstract concepts as, for example: evil, friendship, resentment;

  5) Cardinal points (south, north, west, east), names of months (June, March, April).

  As a rule, most of the nouns denote objects that can be counted and can be combined with a quantitative numeral, for example, lake-lake, house - home. But there are other words that are not used in the plural, these are words that denote substances or material, for example, the entire periodic table or individual words butter, milk, sugar, water, oil, etc. they are not used in the plural.

  I would like to draw your attention to the fact that ignorance of this rule (or neglect?) is much more common than we would like. And sin even sites claiming to educate. For example, on the site sklonenie-slov.ru it is written that the word footwear has a plural form, which is absolutely not true, moreover, quite recently they inclined it, it turned out, God forgive me, shoes, shoes, etc.

  Basically, in Russian words have two forms - plural and singular.

  In the singular form, the noun denotes one thing.

  In the plural form, several things. For example, nightingale - nightingales, help - help.

  But there are some words that have only a single number.

  These include:

  • real nouns. For example, oil, sugar, cement, etc.;
  • abstract (abstract) nouns - good, grief, fun;
  • collective. Teaching, brotherhood.

  As well as most proper names. Caucasus, Ural, Voronezh.

  In Russian, most nouns have the form of the singular and plural. But there are a number of nouns that are used only in the singular. To make it easier to remember, we will distribute the nouns used in the singular into groups:

  1) collective nouns (words denoting the totality of living beings or inanimate objects as a whole): midges, relatives, baby, professorship;

  2) the names of some real nouns that cannot be counted: honey, tea, milk;

  3) abstract concepts: friendship, service, sadness, hatred, evil;

  4) the names of the months and cardinal directions: June, north, south (In the sentence "We will go to the south" - a morphological error);

  5) some own names: Ural, Venus, Mars;

  6) words: burden, udder, crown, flame.

  Yes, the Russian language is rich, not every foreigner will understand such subtleties. In the singular, words are used expressing the feelings and emotions of people - grief, panic, fear, sadness. Sometimes our household items are salt, sugar, md. Also words like coat, coffee. If you search, you can find more.

By numbers, mostly countable nouns change. Uncountable nouns, as a rule, are used only in the singular form:

sugar - sugar, love - love, friendship - friendship.

They are used in the plural only when the variety of species, concepts expressed by them is meant, or when they are used in another sense in which they are already countable. For example:

air - air, movement - movement (as a general concept), music - music, milk - milk, knowledge - knowledge, hair - hair (on a person's head).

BUT: air - aria, melody - "airs - arias, melodies, movement - movement (for example, political or in dance) -> movements - movements (the same), hair - hair -" hairs - hairs, etc.

The plural of nouns is usually formed by adding the ending -s to the singular form:

book - book -» books - books, day - day -> days - days, house - house -> houses - houses.

Reading the ending "-s":

after voiceless consonants - [s]: books
after voiced consonants and vowels - [z]: friends, days
after hissing and whistling (-es) - : boxes [‘boksiz]

Exception l. Nouns ending in the singular with letters o, s, ss, sh, ch, x(hissing and whistling, as they are called), in the plural they have an ending -es:

hero - hero ->heroes - heroes, kiss - kiss -> kisses - kisses, brush - brush-> brushes - brushes, bench - bench -> benches - benches, box - box -> boxes - boxes.

BUT: In words of foreign origin ending in o, in the plural, only the ending is added to the noun -s:

piano - grand piano -> pianos - grand pianos, photo - photography -» photos - photos.

Exception 2. Nouns ending in y with a preceding consonant have the y omitted and the ending added instead -ies, which reads [-iz]:

country [‘kAntri] - country -> countries - countries, city - city cities- cities, family - family families- families.

BUT: If there is a vowel before y, then the plural is formed according to the general rule, i.e. by adding the ending -s:

day - day - "days - days, boy - boy -" boys - boys.

3. Twelve nouns ending in -f or -fe, in the plural lose these letters. Instead of -f or -fe, the ending is added -ves. These are nouns:

wife - wife, life - life, knife - knife, wolf - wolf, self - essence, human appearance, calf - calf, shelf - shelf, leaf - leaf (plant), loaf - loaf (bread), thief - thief, half - half, sheaf - pack (of paper), etc.

For example: wife - wife - "wives - wives, knife - knife -> knives - knives, shelf - shelf -> shelves - shelves.

4. Some nouns form the plural by changing the root vowel:

man - man -> men - men, woman - woman - "women - women, foot - leg feet - legs, tooth - tooth -" teeth - teeth.
HO: child - child -> children - children.

5. For compound nouns, the plural is formed by adding the ending -s to the second word:

armchairs - armchairs, bookcases - bookcases.

BUT: If these words are combined by a preposition, then the first word is put in the plural: sisters-in-law- daughters-in-law.

Words borrowed from Greek or Latin are pluralized according to the rules of those languages:

appendix - application -» appendices - applications (to the book), crisis - crisis -> crises - crises, basis - base, bases - bases, radius - radius -> radii - radii.

Nouns used only in the singular

1. Uncountable nouns (both real and abstract) are usually used only in the singular:

   iron - iron, salt - salt, milk - milk, sugar - sugar, love - love.

2. Nouns advice (advice, advice), information (message, information), progress (success, success), knowledge (knowledge) are used only in the singular.

   He gave me some good advice. He gave me some good advice.
   My coach was satisfied with my progress. My coach was pleased with my progress

3. Nouns news (news, news), money (money), fruit (fruits, fruits) are used in the singular. But, for example, to refer to different types of fruits, the plural is used - fruits.

   What is the news? What's the news?
   It's his money. This is his money.
   Fruit is cheap in autumn. Fruit is cheap in autumn.

4. Among countable nouns, there are those that are used only (or mostly) in the singular form. These are the names of some animals, objects, etc.:

   two sheep - two sheep, six fish - six fish, ten swine - ten pigs, five deer - five deer.