PLURAL NOUNS IN ENGLISH

In English there are nouns which are used only in the plural.

1) Pair nouns

noun	sentence
jeans	Where are my jeans?
glasses	She has lost her glasses.
scissors	These scissors don't cut well.

If you want to refer to an exact number, use a/one pair of, like in the following example.
I have bought a/one pair of jeans.
I have bought two pairs of jeans.

other nouns: binoculars, headphones, pyjamas, scales, shorts, tights, trousers

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2) Nouns not used in the singular (headwords)

noun	sentence
cattle	Male cattle are called bulls.
clothes	He bought some new clothes yesterday.
stairs	The children ran down the stairs.
wages	The wages are paid on the last day of the month.
people*	Three people were killed in the car crash last Friday evening.
police	Look! The police are coming.

* The word people can be used in the singular with another meaning:
They are a friendly people.
The native peoples of Africa often have black skins.

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3) Nationalities

The following nationalities (no -s) are used in the pural:
the Dutch, the British, the English, the French, the Spanish, the Welsh
The singular of the English would be: the Englishman