Question

Correct the following sentence. He discarded all his old furnitures.

• A. He discarded all his old furniture.
• B. He discarded all his old pieces of furnishings.
• C. He discarded all his old items of furnishings.
• D. He discarded off all his old furniture.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. He discarded all his old furniture.

The noun furniture is an uncountable noun (mass noun). Therefore, it does not take the plural form furnitures.

Correct sentence:

He discarded all his old furniture.

Why the other options are incorrect:

• ✅ He discarded all his old furniture. – Correct. Furniture is uncountable.

• ❌ He discarded all his old pieces of furnitures. – Pieces of furniture is correct, but furnitures is incorrect. It should be pieces of furniture.

• ❌ He discarded all his old items of furnitures. – Furnitures is incorrect. It should be items of furniture, though this is less natural than simply furniture.

• ❌ He discarded off all his old furniture. – Discard is a transitive verb and does not take the preposition "off."