In Countable nouns^x, Whom^x

Countable: http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhyNoArticleHere/ggjmr/post.htm As for uncountable, you have already seen them: "Water boils at 100 centigrades (at the "standard" atmospheric pressure)" — here "water" refers to the verty substance, and the sentence...

Hi Ant,In one of the last posts you said: What I wanted to say is, whenever the indefinite article is used, the following noun is either countable or plays a "countable" role.Question 1:Emphasis is on the whenever. This is the same thing I said above. Let me rephrase it again, even...

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, 1. Sometimes I have to look very closely to identify whether the writer meant to say a typical kind something (or just something) or a lot of something when that person used the word "some"in front of countable nouns. Do you have some guidelines to help me make the distinctions easily?...

Anonymous wrote: A Psychology professor at UC Berkeley said that dah-ta (like "dad") is the singular, while day-ta (like "today") is the plural. In other words, you would say "these day-ta", but "this dah-ta." I haven't heard this from any other source, and I've also heard another Psychology...

Hello Guest Since this is for an exam, I don't feel I should give detailed replies. But you may wish to consider: 1. Why the following sentences are ungrammatical: a) Never watch I television. b) Which programmes watched you? Look up Inversion in your grammar book. a) Would you like an...