Confusing Nouns

• advice (counsel)
• advices (orders, news, instructions)

• candy (general use)
• candies (different kinds)

• cloth (fabric)
• clothes (finished garment)

• fish (general use/collectively)
• fishes (different specimens/kinds)

• food (general use)
• foods (different specimens/kinds)

• fruit (general use)
• fruits (different specimens/kinds)

• hair (entire growth on head or skin)
• hairs (strands of hair)

• glass (for drinking, material)
• glasses (spectacles)

• grass (general use)
• grasses (different specimens)

• instruction (teaching)
• instructions (orders, regulations)

• lace (general use)
• laces (different specimens/kinds)

• land (isolated portion of the earth's surface)
• lands (different nations or countries)

• paper (material for writing, printing)
• papers (documents)

• people (general use)
• peoples (different races or nations)

• pottery (industry)
• potteries (wares fashioned out of clay)

• property (possession, real estate)
• properties (materials used on the stage)

• sand (the whole stretch of sand)
• sands (individual grains)

• wood (lumber)
• woods (forest)

• work (product of human labor)
• works (all products; duties, ceremonials; a place where industrial labor is carried on as in iron works or public works)