- equipment or equipments? - WordReference Forums
Equipments is used in the automotive industry a great deal to talk about optional elements for a car offer (like electric windows, or Pro-level: refrigerated compartments, dump truck beds, hatchbacks, etc) Also used in the military, as explained earlier It is incorrect, but is slipping into common usage, and will be an accepted term soon, I
- grammatical number - What is the plural of equipment? - English . . .
Google ngrams doesn't stem, but you still need to check the results A comparison of equipment and equipments shows that the plural form does occur but at a much smaller frequency than the plural form Even given this lesser frequency it looks like 'equipments' was more common in the past, in foreign works, and in technical works
- equipment or equipments - WordReference Forums
Also, one can refer to "the many equipments I use in the course of my day", referring here to kinds of equipment, rather than to one example or other of any such equipment Again, all this is perfectly understandable
- Plural nouns - WordReference Forums
I am confused with the plural nouns, please help: 1 I think you can't say these equipments, nor these equipment, so you should say the equipment, a lot of equipment, or many pieces of euipment instead? 2 The Google search shows the following results Result should be plural or singular
- so many equipment - WordReference Forums
In very complex systems, e g , the space shuttle, it is common to use 'equipments' because there are so many subsystems -----propulsion, navigation or guidance, attitude control, stage separation, ignition, switching from ground power to battery power, real-time computer, telemetry, and maybe a few more So it really depends on the matter at hand
- grammatical number - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
For example, you couldn't say *"I have two equipments", instead you would have to use "I have two pieces of equipment " Because equipment is treated as a singular noun, even when it refers to multiple objects, it must take the singular form of the verb, so "Is the equipment in the work centre calibrated?" would be correct
- Number of equipment - WordReference Forums
Hi I know that the noun 'equipment' is a mass noun But is it okay to say 'the number of equipment' to refer to the quantity of equipment pieces? The following is a sentence from EUR-Lex — Access to European Union law — choose your language Thus, a compulsory mechanism for MS's contributions
- equipment: plural | WordReference Forums
You cannot say "one equipment" or "many equipments" On the other hand, you may refer to " one piece of equipment", or " two pieces of equipment", or " much equipment"
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