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Latest post Fri, Jan 12 2007 8:45 PM by Marius Hancu. 1 replies.
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Sextus  +  314527 Fri, 12 Jan 07 07:44 PM

I've got a question about the following sentence:

"In what follows, I will summarize the content of the eleven papers and discuss some of the issues they raise".

I'm not sure whether I should say "contents" instead of "content".

Thanks

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Marius Hancu  +  314555 Fri, 12 Jan 07 08:45 PM
Content.

Contents would sound to me too much of an inventory. Content seems to me more abstract.

However, at Google:

43 for "summarize the content of those"
20 for "summarize the contents of those"

As you can see, I searched for several things with those, a plurality. Still, content was the dominant.




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