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Hi guys, These all seem like valid points. There are certainly some specialized uses of the plural form. eg the works of a clock or the phrase something is in the works. We can speak of ten works of art. In the construction trade, you can use the terms as noted, eg Clerk of Works, the...

Somethingsimple wrote: Can you suggest a few titles, pls. Cheers,Al. The Cambridge Online Dictionary would say if a noun is countable or uncountable.

Hi, there! I´d appreciate very much if somebody could tell me why the noun fever can either be countable or uncountable. Thank you. Gabriela.

Hi, I googled and got these results. without doubt 8.58 million without a doubt 16.1 million without any doubt 0.95 million So, I guess including 'a' is the most common form of the phrase, but a lot of people exclude it, too. I suppose that if you want to find a grammar rule, it depends on...

Yes, I am a Chinese, a civil engineer. It's same issue what I met. So, I think in engineering workplace, Works maybe mean a lot of different work. Work is abstract.

Investigators were looking at control system failure as the most likely cause of the crash, said Ilham Amirov, deputy chief of the state-controlled Azerbaijani Airlines."Failure" is an uncountable noun. We could modify it with THE if it is already defined. But the sentence here suggests the...

This also might help…… Quantifiers used with countable and uncountable nouns.. with countable nouns with uncountable nouns e.g.……apples………. e.g........water.............. ...

Woodward wrote: Another is used with singular nouns. Other is used with plural nouns (and uncountable nouns). Compare: Another day. Other days. Other can be used with singular countable, plural countable or uncountable nouns. 1. The other window is open. <---- countable 2....

I baked a cake. Lettuce is a mass noun meaning a determiner a/an is not used. So we have to use a head of, a piece of, etc. to show quantity. For example: He bought a head of lettuce and then made a salad with a few pieces of lettuce.

hello, Please, could you tell me when the nouns 'lettuce' and 'cake' are used as countable and uncountable nouns? as my dictionary says that they can be both. thank you in advance