By Abstract nouns, Plurals

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if there...

Hi Saadi, When we use “it is” in the context such as yours, it is nearly impossible to come up with an explanation which may fit all the usages. It is cold and dark outside! – What is “it” ? one may ask. It – is an abstract pronoun which could be either plural or singular in this type of...

. Well duh. One of the two must be the vowel-- I, O or U... and sometimes Y.Abstract noun....goodmoodhushliftriftploy Is it countable, and if so, is it plural?

Thanks for your reply I think both heart and mind are abstract nouns. I wonder why they can be plural nouns and countable ones. It is said that if asbtract nouns are added -s ending; changed into countable nouns, abstract nouns changes to a common noun and their meaning is changed.. I wonder if...

Hi again, If some uncountable abstract nouns can become countable depending on context and some cannot (i.e., forever stay uncountable), then what is the trick or the rule of thumb that I can use to separate them ? I'm inclined to think there is no such trick. That's why learning a language is...

Hello Clive,Thank you for your input. However, I now feel uneasy. If some uncountable abstract nouns can become countable depending on context and some cannot (i.e., forever stay uncountable), then what is the trick or the rule of thumb that I can use to separate them ? If Google hits certainly...

Hoa Thai wrote:First, thank you for your reply. Now if you can help me a bit further, I would appreciate very much.If advice is an uncountable abstract noun, then advices must be wrong, right? (Yesterday, my father gave me his advice. Today, my mother gives me hers. I don't like their two advice...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Marius Hancu wrote:2 (two) abstract nouns (and not only abstract nouns) require a plural So it means my dictionary is totally wrong...Hmm...

2 (two) abstract nouns (and not only abstract nouns) require a plural