VI Nouns with no singular form:

1. pyjamas, spectacles, binoculars, braces(подтяжки), tongs(щипцы)+ ARE

The spectacles do not fit me.

2. clothes, stairs, contents, quarters + ARE

His clothes were neither expensive nor cheap.

3. savings(сбережения), riches(богатство), wages(зарплата), earnings(заработок), customs(таможенная пошлина), alms(милостыня), goods(товар) + ARE

Your alms are welcome.

4. regs(осадок), slops(помои), parings(очистки), sweets(сладости) + ARE

The dregs on the bottom of the glass show that the wine is of a poor quality.

5. measles(корь), mumps(свинка), hysterics(истерика), blues(меланхолия) + ARE

Hysterics come as a result of overstrain.

6. the Browns, the Netherlands, the West Indies + ARE

The Browns were looking for a new house.

HO!!!!

7. dominoes, checkers, cards, billiards + IS

Billiards was a life's passion for them.

8. sawbones(хирург), boots(коридорный), lazy-bones(лодырь) + IS

This sawbone is disliked by his patients.

9. linguistics, phonetics, ethics, politics, statistics + IS

Ethics deals with morals.

Но если имеется в виду частный случай, то + ARE:

What were his politics then?

VII Plurals with different meanings:

colours(флаг, цвета), manners(повеление, манеры; пути, способы), pictures(кино, картины), quarters(квартира, жилище; четверти), damages(возмещение за убытки; ущерб, убыток), glasses(очки, стаканы), customs(таможня, обычаи), irons(оковы, утюги)