Items such as luggage, furniture and equipment are generally described as 'noncount' nouns, and are used as being grammatically singular.
Firstly, navigation was sometimes interrupted by natural obstacles and luggage and goods had to be hauled overland.
This is aimed at automating the task of scanning luggage and cargo for aircraft and ships.
The transport ships would have to provide detailed information on the passengers on board and their luggage.
The worker who scans luggage at the airport exemplifies this qualified right to autonomy.
Which pieces of luggage are more alike than others depends not only upon what properties they share, but upon who makes the comparison, and when.
There is usually a tailgate but no separate luggage compartment.
There was a luggage wagon that would pick up and drop at the head of the march.
The spectator may notice shape, size, color, material, and even make of luggage; the pilot is more concerned with weight, and the passenger with destination and ownership.
We waited for our luggage.
Similarly, forms such as furniture, luggage, traffic and equipment are said to be grammatically 'noncount' although they could be perceived as consisting of items that could be 'counted'.
They had delayed charter flights, hour-long waits for luggage to be brought to hotel rooms, and over-booked day excursions.
The police know that drugs have been introduced into legitimate consignments of goods and luggage and recovered when the container has been landed.
But when you add lost luggage, delayed flights and poor service, then there is a serious problem.
In particular the way in which passengers are expected to turn over their 'duty-free' liquids purchased at an airport to the authorities checking hand luggage.
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