Name: I HATE English! Surprising plurals and singulars ?
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T09:49:15.000Z
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I wake up and I'm like "Wow, I didn't die.

I'm more surprised that you haven't given me a donation.

Open your pockets, open your wallet, give me some money.

Today, I'm going to surprise you with some surprising plurals.

Now, plurals means that something has an "s", the opposite of plural is singular, and I

tell you all the time, English does not really follow a logical pattern, and this is a very

wonderful exception to this, and the reason why you make these mistakes - it's not your

I always tell you; I think when they were making my language, they were drunk, mmhmm.

They were just drinking and said let's just put an "s" here, but don't put one here, because

that'll be too easy and follow a pattern.

So, today's lesson is on surprising plurals.

You're going to be so surprised because I have a green thing.

So, the first one that I always want to exemplify and tell people is that people, yeah, are

This means one is a person, and we do have the word "persons" in English, but we don't

Your textbook's stupid, because we don't say that, so people are always plural.

So, when you're taking about people, we need to use the verb "to be" in the plural sense.

We can't say "people is", we're going to say "people are".

People are always buying things they don't need.

So, logically in your brain, we have everyone or everybody, and these are the same, okay?

We think that everyone and everybody must be many people.

You're right, it is many people, but guess what?

This - for some strange reason, we treat as a singular.

So, if we have a verb here in the present tense, we have to say "everyone likes" or

Oh, ahem, of course they do, but you have to say, "Everyone likes me."

So, everyone and everybody, we treat this as a singular, so you need to put the "s"

Logically, in your brain, no one, not one, oh, that might work, but nobody, eh, one.

It has - it might make a little bit more sense, because these are actually singular, so you

need to put the "s", but again, I hear people say, "No one care", but you have to say "No

And again, no one and nobody have the exact same meaning.

Everyone and everybody is the exact same.

It doesn't matter, choose your favorite, but remember, these ones are singular.

And this might be probably the strangest one of all.

So you're thinking, so, "all of the..." means "every", okay, which means more than one.

We have to say, "All of the hamburgers", so our noun here has to be a plural noun if it's

Now, if it's a singular noun, it's cool, but some of the, so, some of the people, we don't

need an "s", remember, but some of the dogs, we can't say "Some of the dog".

Some of the dog is delicious to eat, but other parts - no!

Again, we have the negative "none of the", none of the pizzas are delicious, unfortunately.

So, when we have "All of the", "Some of the" and "None of the" with a noun that's plural,

we have to make sure that we put an "s" on the plural noun.

So, these are words that I hear frequently people who do not speak English as their native

language make mistakes on, and it's cool.

Just try and remember these guys always get an "s", yay for the "s".

And then, we have words that - hey, guess what, these ones don't need an "s" at all,

and the first one is the word vocabulary.

I was sent an offer for a job and they said "Ronnie, please make a scenario about" now,

this is an English school, okay, this is an English school, "Please make a scenario about

I'm sorry, you're an English school, and you're sending me this as "vocabularies"?

Ronnie's not taking this because "vocabulary" is what we see in English is uncountable.

You can't have vocabularies, you can only have vocabulary.

So, most of these ones I'm going to tell you about, we call uncountable nouns, and there's

an "s" just to make your life more confusing.

The other one, so, I know this website, yeah, maybe two of the websites, and they like to

And when I look at their websites, they have things like "slangs".

And I think wow, in India, do all of the people learning English learn incorrectly that it's

And I go "Oh, Lord Jesus, crazy people.", because it's not "slangs", it's "slang".

Be careful what you're learning, be careful about the knowledge that people are giving