👌🏻Get it right: #trouble


✨Trouble is mostly used as an uncountable noun, so:

▪  it is not usually found in the plural
▪  it never comes after a or a number

🔹Most people who are in prison have had troubles with the law before. ✘
🔸Most people who are in prison have had trouble with the law before. ✔️

🔹If they come face to face with a trouble, the first thing they do is cry. ✘
🔸If they come face to face with trouble, the first thing they do is cry. ✔️

✨When trouble is the object of the verbs cause and get into, it is always singular:

🔹Young criminals should get in touch with their victims, so that they can realize the troubles they have caused. ✘
🔸Young criminals should get in touch with their victims, so that they can realize the trouble they have caused. ✔️

🔹If children get into troubles, their parents must bail them out. ✘
🔸If children get into trouble, their parents must bail them out. ✔️

✨The plural form troubles is used to refer to all the problems that a person has, and it is often used with a possessive determiner:

🔻The prime minister seemed to be brooding over his troubles.

🔻We all have our troubles and we must deal with them as best we can.


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