Most police departments have officers in two main groups: a “patrol” group with officers who wear uniforms, and a “detective” group with officers who wear normal clothing.

Police is a noun which describes a collection of police officers. This means it has no singular form and always uses a plural verb.

The word knowledge is non-countable a noun and does not have a plural form.

Knowledge is an uncountable noun, so it is never used in the plural: ✗ Students don’t understand how to use these knowledges in real life.

off·​spring | / ˈȯf-ˌspriŋ / plural offspring also offsprings.

If something is uncountable, you cannot count how many of that thing there are. For Example: knowledge, rice and air. We don’t count all the grains of rice in a bowl – we just ask for rice. Unlike countable nouns, uncountable nouns do not have a plural form.

Brother can be a noun or a verb.

23 Common Figures of Speech (Types and Examples)

• SIMILE. In simile two unlike things are explicitly compared.
• METAPHOR. It is an informal or implied simile in which words like, as, so are omitted.
• PERSONIFICATION.
• METONYMY.
• APOSTROPHE.
• HYPERBOLE.
• SYNECDOCHE.
• TRANSFERRED EPITHETS.

In European languages, figures of speech are generally classified in five major categories: (1) figures of resemblance or relationship (e.g., simile, metaphor, kenning, conceit, parallelism, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, and euphemism); (2) figures of emphasis or understatement (e.g., hyperbole, litotes.

A figure of speech is a deviation from the ordinary use of words in order to increase their effectiveness. Basically, it is a figurative language that may consist of a single word or phrase. It may be a simile, a metaphor or personification to convey the meaning other than the literal meaning.

Among these are:

• Simile.
• Metaphor.
• Implied metaphor.
• Personification.
• Hyperbole.
• Allusion.
• Idiom.
• Pun.

Figures of Speech

• Alliteration. The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
• Allusion. The act of alluding is to make indirect reference.
• Anaphora. The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
• Antaclasis.
• Anticlimax.
• Antiphrasis.
• Antithesis.
• Apostrophe.

In Act II, Scene II of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s famous line “O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” is an apostrophe. This is because, although Romeo is a living person and is hiding in her yard and listening to her, Juliet thinks she is addressing someone who’s not present.

Apostrophe – when a character in a literary work speaks to an object, an idea, or someone who doesn’t exist as if it is a living person. This is done to produce dramatic effect and to show the importance of the object or idea. Examples of Apostrophe: 1. Oh, rose, how sweet you smell and how bright you look!

When using a singular noun, the apostrophe is used before the s. For example: “The squirrel’s nuts were stashed in a hollow tree.” When using a plural noun, the apostrophe goes after the s. For example: “The squirrels’ nuts were hidden in several hollow trees throughout the forest.”