RE: plural form of 'equipment' ?

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

Equipment is a mass noun, like "furniture" or "sand" or "gravel", so
while it may refer to more than one thing it remains technically
singular, like "furniture".  So you'd say "several pieces of equipment"
or "all the equipment needed to support XXX function" or whatever makes
sense in context.

Incidentally, I learned in 8th grade that those things were "collective
nouns", but on doing more research I find that the term "collective
noun" usually refers either to words designating groups of people such
as "team" or "faculty" or "staff", or those fun terms for groups such as
"a murder of crows".  Mrs. McGilveray was wrong, possibly for the only
time in her teaching career.

-  Jessica Weissman
Hillcrest Laboratories

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