Directions: Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.

New furniture were ordered for the primary classes.

The correct answer is were ordered.

Key Points

• There are some uncountable nouns (followed by a singular verb) which don't take the articles 'a/an', many, few, and plural form:​
  • Furniture, scenery, luggage, temper, hair, knowledge, equipment, pottery, music, jewelry, etc.​
• Example:
  • ​The sceneries at my friend's house enchanted me.
  • The scenery at my friend's house enchanted me.
• As 'furniture' is an uncountable noun, 'was' will be used instead of 'were' in the part given in the 4th option.

Correct sentence: New furniture was ordered for the primary classes.

Additional Information

• The nouns given below seem plural in form but in actuality are singular:
  • ​news, billiards, summons, physics, measles, innings, etc.
• Example:
  • ​Physics is an interesting subject.