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Re: Please, lookthrough my essay, and make some comment about the contents.

Here is my 2nd draft.Topic: How movies or television influence people's behavior? Use reason and specific examples to support your answer. What type of media has the greatest influence on people's behavior? Surely, the only answer would be television. This is because television is...

Re: Is there a difference between stuff and thing

Hi, First, stuff is uncountable noun, while thing is a countable noun. We use stuff to intrinsically talk about unidentified mass of thing(s) / substances / materials. We use thing to extrinsically address items we can discreetly identified in terms of quantity / measurements.

Re: Articles (a, an)

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...

Re: The difference between Ill and sick

Amazighman wrote: many Thanks for these information As MrP says, it should be this information. ("Information" is an uncountable noun.)

Re: Can "little" modify countable nouns?

Grammar Geek wrote:In your example, with the slight change to I had some little alterations made, it sounds fine to me.Hi GGYour sentence sounds fine to me as well. I think the original poster didn't quite know how to ask the question he/she wanted to ask. That is obvious from his/her sentence,...

Re: Can "little" modify countable nouns?

Yes, by all means, little can modify countable nouns. As an American speaker, I agree that there are differences so that you can't always use "small" when you'd use "little," (the "little boy" example is a good one). But you can use "little" just about any time you would use "small." You seem...

Re: "there is/are not much difference..." Thank you

Hi PBF,you can say "difference" if you want to use it as an uncountable, general noun, like "information". Obviously, the verb has to be singular and you use "much" instead of "many":There's not much difference.You can say "differences" if you are thinking of many separate differences, and you...

Re: What's the difference between A and B?

Goodman wrote: Hi Diamond, Typically, “the” is the article used with “importance” as in, “the importance of moral in raising our children”. I agree with you that is a collective / uncountable noun, but that’s not the reason for using “the”, instead of “an”. In fact, “an” should be used when...

Re: What's the difference between A and B?

Hi Diamond, Typically, “the” is the article used with “importance” as in, “the importance of moral in raising our children”. I agree with you that is a collective / uncountable noun, but that’s not the reason for using “the”, instead of “an”. In fact, “an” should be used when I say “I just...

Re: What's the difference between A and B?

hi, anon "importance" is an uncountable noun, so you can't use it with "an". The expression is 'the importance of something'. Don't use "importance" without "the" except for fixed expressions such as "be of vital/paramount importance, attach importance to, of primary importance, a sense of...