BTW.. *mathematics* is not a plural! It is a mass noun. Uncountable common nouns are known as mass nouns. Some are uncountable because they’re abstract or can’t be divided into discrete units—for example: bravery music evidence water countryside humanity Other mass nouns are used to denote indeterminate aggregations of things that in other terms may be countable. For example, furniture is a mass noun even when it denotes an understood number of pieces of furniture. Here are a few other examples: sushi faculty media luggage meat garbage majority Most mass nouns, especially the abstract ones, usually take a singular verb
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