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Vincent Teo Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

starting to work

Can I say,

They prepared a lot of cleaning tools / cleaning equipments before starting (to work)
  

Top answer

" "Equipments" should be singular: equipment.

  • " "Equipments" should be singular: equipment.
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This sounds better: They prepared a lot of cleaning tools/cleaning equipment before they started to work.If you omit "to work" it sounds okay to use "starting" or "they started."
"Equipments" should be singular: equipment.

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