Furniture

Hi,

Plural for furniture is same as in singular. So:

All the furniture is new.

I answered 'are' instead of 'is' and it was wrong, Why?

You can't count furniture. There is no plural, so 'is' is correct. You can, however, speak of items/pieces of furniture.

Best wishes, Clive

Hi,

I guess in Spanish you can say tres muebles but English is different.

I can count chairs or tables (1 chair, 2 chairs, 3 chairs), but not furniture. I have to say 3 pieces of furniture.

Best wishes, Clive

Hi,

You can't say 3 police or 3 furniture,

but you can 3 police officers or 3 pieces of furniture.

Best wishes, Clive

Because 'police' is the name of the whole service, not the job. The people who work for the police service are police officers.

To take your doctor example, it would be like calling doctors 'hospitals'. We say 'call the police' when we need help in the same sense as 'call the hospital'.