Singular vs. Plural for Certain Words "Equipment" is an example of a word that could describe one or more objects, even though it has no "s" on the end when it is used to de
…scribe more than one. "Equipment with an "s" is correctly used with an apostrophe before the "s" as in "equipment's," a contraction for the word "is." An example: The equipment is expensive or The equipment's expensive." (MORE)