Учебное пособие: Консультации по английской грамматике В помощь учителю иностранного языка

shorts spectacles

tights tongs

trousers tweezers

"A pair of is used to show that one item is meant.

Many nouns are countable (C) in one meaning and are uncountable (U) in another.

paper n 1 U substance manufactured from wood fibre, etc.

2 С newspaper

3 U ~ money, banknotes

4 pi documents showing who sb is

5 С set of printed examination questions on a given subject

6 С essay, esp one to be read to a learned society

room n 1 С part of a house or a building enclosed by walls or parti­tions, floor, ceiling

2 pi apartments

3 U space that is or might be occupied

4 U scope, opportunity

language n 1 U human and noninstinctive method of communicat­ing ideas

2 С form of ~ used by a people

3 U manner of using words

4 U words, phrases, etc. used by a profession

Of special interest in the EFL teaching should be those English uncountable nouns whose Russian equivalents have a different reference to number since students' errors can be predicted each time they will be used.

English uncountable singular Russian uncountable plural

applause аплодисменты

cash наличные

cutlery режущие столовые предметы

hair волосы

money деньги

English uncountable singular Russian countable

advice совет, -ы

gossip сплетня, -и