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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

goods or good? countable or uncountable noun?

Please help me fill in the blank:
The ..........produced at our factory in Scotland.
A.good are.
B.good is.
C.goods are.
D.goods is.
  

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Anonymous goods or good? countable or uncountable noun? 'Goods' is a plural-only countable noun; it has no singular form.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous goods or good?
  • countable or uncountable noun?
  • 'Goods' is a plural-only countable noun; it has no singular form.
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Anonymousgoods or good? countable or uncountable noun?
'Goods' is a plural-only countable noun; it has no singular form.
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I have to slightly disagree with MM in this instance. A singular form, "good", is used in certain technical contexts. However, it's rather unusual, and you can safely ignore it for the purposes of your question.
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GPY A singular form, "good", is used in certain technical contexts
Yes. I really should use a dictionary more often.

[IN SINGULAR]: the market price of an agricultural good
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Mister Micawber I really should use a dictionary more often.
I'd have given the same response as you.

GPY was right to point out that it's not 100% correct, but most native speakers do not know of the existence of the singular form, let alone use it. It's not in the Oxford ALD, and Michael Swan includes goods in his list of 'common words which
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In my experience, the word product/products is much more common than the word goods.

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