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Thank you very much. I was looking at my teenager friend's Collins/Cobuild Compact English Learner's Dictionary and it had these definitions among many for the word "exercise." exercise 2. an uncountable noun and a verb: When you exercise, you move your body energetically in order to get fit...

Ah! You've just pointed out something rather interesting. It just occurred to me that “complaining” as used in my original sentence, could be perceived as an uncountable noun by itself followed by “negative emotion; or an adjective describing “emotion” depending on the person reading it. “In...

Pinenut wrote: Goodman wrote: Can any expert answer this question? If there are two uncountable nouns in a sentence, should we should singular / plurla verb? Ex: In the townhall meeting, there was/ were a lot of complaining and negative emotion. I know with a single uncountalbe noun, th...

Marius and Pinehut, Thanks for your quick reply.The reason for my asking this question was that I got into a long discussion with someone whether in a double uncountable nouns sitution a single or plural verb is correct. Naturally, 2 nouns suggested plural. But as Marius pointed out, 'was' also...

Goodman wrote:Can any expert answer this question? If there are two uncountable nouns in a sentence, should we should singular / plurla verb? Ex: In the townhall meeting, there was/ were a lot of complaining and negative emotion. I know with a single uncountalbe noun, th answer is "was" but...

Can any expert answer this question? If there are two uncountable nouns in a sentence, should we should singular / plurla verb? Ex: In the townhall meeting, there was/ were a lot of complaining and negative emotion. I know with a single uncountalbe noun, th answer is "was" but not sure with...

Believer, In addition to MM's comments, here are some rules about "a lot of" and "lots of". (1) Both "a lot of" and "lots of" are used with singular uncountable and plural nouns. Most importantly, they are not used with singular countable nouns. For example, 'A lot of pencil is on the...

Anonymous wrote:How is it that the word "information" can be singular or plural in context, but always takes the singular verb "is"? Also, why is its plural not "informations"? See this page for info on uncountable nouns: http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/countable.html

Believer wrote: 1. Can we use this variable noun "hypocrisy" like this? Which one is correct? It is hypocrisy. It is a hypocrisy. 2. I have two uncountable nouns and am wondering how they can be like that. SOFTWARE: a uncountable noun The people who write the software for big computer...

I am utterly confused with the rule associated with the use of what, what a and how in exclamations. According to a Collins Grammar book, the rule is as follow: - How + adjective/adverb e.g. How beautiful! - What a + singular countable noun e.g. What a mess! ? - What + uncountable...