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In this lesson, you’ll learn how some nouns in English exist only in the plural! Strange but true. How do you know which ones? Watch this video! I talk about the 26 most used ones in this lesson, and I’ve also put some less common examples below as well.

These pluralonly nouns come in 3 groups.

(1) certain nouns involving your legs
(2) certain nouns involving eyes, ears and tools &
(3) certain nouns which don’t go in the first 2 groups!

With groups 1 and 2, you can use the expression “a pair of” if you want to specify the singular

e.g. either some trousers (singular) or
a pair of trousers (singular)

But you can’t put these in the singular form by removing the “s” ending!

(1) Nouns involving your “legs”
Trousers
Jeans
Shorts
Pants
Boxers
Knickers
Tights
Pyjamas & pyjama bottoms

(2) Nouns involving “eyes, ears and tools”
Glasses
Sunglasses
Goggles
Binoculars
Headphones
Scissors
Pliers
Tongs

(3) The other ones!
People
Clothes
Belongings
Stairs
Odds
Valuables
Manners
Remains
Leftovers
Proceeds

Extra ones that aren’t in the video:
yfronts (a kind of underwear)
chinos (a kind of trousers)
swimming trunks
speedos (type of swimming trunks)
bottoms (general word for the bottom half of an outfit e.g. tracksuit bottoms, pyjama bottoms)
leggings (tight clothing worn on your legs, usually by girls/women)
thanks (to thank is a verb, thanks is a plural noun)
the Tropics (a place)
congratulations (no such thing as “a congratulation”)
savings (money you save in the bank)
customs (at a border)
wages (money you earn)
stockings (another word for tights)
outskirts (the edge of the city)
shenanigans (silly behaviour)

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