有哪些短语/词组只可接可数名词复数形式？

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(answered by: alexcwlin; edited by: Adam Lam)

These are only a sample of them and there are lots more.

Nouns always in plural forms:

1.      A pair of (trousers, pants, shorts, leggings, jeans, flares, tights, overalls, dungarees, panties, undies, shoes, slippers, gloves, earrings)

2.      clothes

3.      A pair of scissors

4.      A pair of (glasses, spectacles)

5.      amends (e.g., make amends to his past wrongdoings)

6.      riches, furnishings, belongings, earnings, valuables

7.      jitters (meaning nervous attack)

8.      remains

Nouns ending with “s” that are singular forms:

1.      news

2.      (games): billiards, darts, cards

3.      (illnesses): measles, mumps, rickets, shingles, rabies

4.      thermodynamics

5.      politics

6.      (studies): physics, mechanics, mathematics, logistics, linguistics, genetics, electronics, aerodynamics, acoustics)

7.      classics

8.      means

9.      species