By Countable nouns, Dates

Re: one slash...

Thanks Kooyeen. I know it is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG to use "software" as a countable noun. We can certainly find a lot of reasons why "software" should be uncountable. However, I just hate I have to say "a piece of software" or a "software package" every...

Re: what could come after a preposition?

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase, usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective. A relative clause may be added. The noun itself may be a gerund. If the element after the candidate for a...

Re: some rule about using articles

Hi,very interesting... I wouldn't say you always have to add the article. But I'm not sure, so it would be interesting to know if in a sentence like...Candidates must have (a) good knowledge of Physicsthe article can be left out. If so, then you can say that the article can be added when...

thinking in types of them

Hi, I am thinking of the following uncountable nouns in terms of their types as seem to note in the third sentences of each set of question sentences and can you check all the following are possible? As to all three cases, the words 'terror', 'mercy' and 'disaster' seem to be suitable candidates...

Help me to understand.

Hi, In the post titled "Uncountable noun that is preceded by the "a", I think Mister M noted, as part of his response, some uncountable nouns like 'attendance' or 'support' ,which are mentioned by victorycounty, don't necessarily become countable and it is often the speaker's conception that...

not simple but yet important

Hi, Maybe I really shouldn't delve too deeply into the topic of changing an uncountable noun into a countable noun but since I see them every so often in print, I want to ask you. A person or two (think one person is Yankee) seem to have said that I have to find the words or things that can be...

Re: Lesson on issue of descriptive adjective and choice

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns:I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the...

All + countable noun + verb

Q1. Which one is correct? 1. All the phones are outdated. 2. All phones are outdated. 3. All of the phones are outdated. Q2. Is the word "Signage" a countable noun or uncountable noun? Function: noun Date: 1976 : signs (as of identification, warning, or direction) or a system of such signs...