Can We Say Evidences?

Can We Say Evidences?

Evidence is an uncountable noun

uncountable noun
In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, or non-count noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements. ... Mass nouns have no concept of singular and plural, although in English they take singular verb forms.
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and is not used in the plural. ... ✗Don't say: The judge listened to all the evidences. • Evidence is always followed by a singular verb: The evidence is very clear.

Is there a word evidences?

Evidence is an uncountable noun. Don't talk about 'evidences' or 'an evidence'. However, you can talk about a piece of evidence.

Which is correct evidence or evidences?

In general English, evidence is always uncountable. However, in academic English the plural evidences is sometimes used: (specialist) The cave contained evidences of prehistoric settlement.

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