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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Much police or many police

Hi guys

Iam puzzled with the word police is it un countable or countable?
Can we say many police or much police?
Is all the uncountables singular and we cannot have a plural from them like furniture or information or news?
Cheers.
  

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It is a plural-only countable noun, like 'cattle': many police, many cattle. If you want the singular, you must use 'police officer'. Anonymous Is all the uncountables singular and we cannot have a plural from them like furniture or information or news?

— Mister Micawber

  • It is a plural-only countable noun, like 'cattle': many police, many cattle.
  • If you want the singular, you must use 'police officer'.
  • Anonymous Is all the uncountables singular and we cannot have a plural from them like furniture or information or news?
  • They are neither singular nor plural but uncountable, though in most cases (the above are exceptions), the uncountable form is spelt like the singular form: Beauty is a blessing / She is a real beauty.
  • Singular and plural of uncountables require a counter: One piece of furniture / two pieces of furniture
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It is a plural-only countable noun, like 'cattle': many police, many cattle.
If you want the singular, you must use 'police officer'.
AnonymousIs all the uncountables singular and we cannot have a plural from them like furniture or information or news?
They are neither singular nor plural but uncountable, though in most cases (the above are exception
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Anonymouspuzzled with by the word 'police'
'police' is countable in that you can precede it by 'many'. We never say 'much police'.

Rarely have I seen so many police deployed there as in the past few days.
There were very
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