Is the following sentence correct?
There is a woods near our house.
(I am talking about one woods, but it is a bit awkward to use "a" before "woods". Hence I am not sure about this.)
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Is the following sentence correct?
There is a woods near our house.
(I am talking about one woods, but it is a bit awkward to use "a" before "woods". Hence I am not sure about this.)
Best Answer
[This answer relates solely to British English. I'm not sure whether wood is used in this sense in American English.]
Chambers defines this meaning of wood as follows:
showing that it can be used as singular or plural.
We would not say:
You could say:
The terminology is imprecise, but would depend, for example, on whether you are talking about :
In case 1., you may well call it a wood, but in case 2., some woods would be a better description.