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What do the following words have in common?

- furniture,luggage,news,information,progress,knowledge,research,advice.
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All uncountable nouns! A/an cannot preceed the words.
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well done!
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Thanks Maj - I want more questions!
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about grammar I suppose?
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Yep - sounds good!
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Can you think of three homophones? A virtual beer in the post if you can.
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Flour - Flower

Male - Mail

Court - Caught

Peace - Piece

Way - Weigh

Saw - Sore

That's 6 - does that mean 2 beers?
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lol No way! You always cheat! You'll have to make do with just one.
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