By Countable nouns, Plural words

Hi, I have not-so-easy times using the word 'types' in front of a countable noun and an uncountable noun. There are two types of face: optimistic and pessimistic. -- I have difficulty with using the word 'types' with a countable noun. I think 'face' is used...

Hi, I think it has been noted in this forum that a genitive (I think it means a noun that has or is from a verbal root) can be (made it to be) a countable noun, possibly like this "a barking of a dog need not be heeded." Here, a barking can be said to be an instance of barking. 1. Why has the...

Hi, Sometimes I see phrasal cases where adjectives in front of a noun seem to warrant it to be plural but ends up being the case of shared adjectives. Is this one? Can you help me to clearly distinguish similar situations? both singular and plural tense -- When should 'tense' be 'tenses'? ...

Hi, I was looking at my dictionary to look up the word "writing" and it said it is an uncountable noun. OK, but it has a plural form "writings" right beside the word "writing." I presume the plural word "writings' is an uncountable too like its singular form "writing." Can you help me to...

Hvpl wrote:I understand that certain nouns (collective nouns?) that do not have a plural word. E.g. aircraft, rain and perspiration. However, I come across such usage, specially in Asia. "Many aircraftS are taking off and landing at this airport." or "Beads of perspirationS fell from his...