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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Plurals

Are electricity and lightning plurals or singular words?
  

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Hi, Electricity is uncountable. Lightning is uncountable as well. com/dictionary/lightning Kamil

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  • Hi, Electricity is uncountable.
  • Lightning is uncountable as well.
  • com/dictionary/lightning Kamil
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Hi,
Electricity is uncountable.
Lightning is uncountable as well.

Here you may find the definitions:
http://oaadonline.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/electricity

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AnonymousAre electricity and lightning plurals or singular words?
Singular. Electricity is .... Lightning is ....

CJ
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They are uncountable nouns.
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These are singular-only nouns, however, like all singular-only nouns they can be forced into plural usage. For example:

The electricity between the four couples was obvious, and by night's end the electricities flowed unchecked between, about, and around them.

The artist planted 10 lightning rods, each connected to a lengthy metal grid on the ground. During a storm a bolt hit a
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Because the concepts of number and countability are so closely related, it's useful to think of them as "singular-only, non-count" nouns.

BillJ
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