By Countable or uncountable, Nouns

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Hi Barbara,I believe you meant to say foods. Right?I was wrong then. Now it's obvious to me that washroom was used as a countable noun.Can you do me two favors, please? First, please check the below Analysis for any mistakes. Second, please check my second post on the following...

Apple can either be countable or uncountable noun.Analysis:Jack: What did you eat?Jane: I ate an apple.Jane used apple as a countable noun. Jane would not say the apple because there was no need to restrict appleJack: Where did you get it from?Jane: I ate the apple that was on the table.Jane...

.These words function differently.Youth and membership can be countable or uncountable nouns:Youth is carefree.There is a youth / There are three youths standing on the corner.Membership is free.I have had a membership / They have had their memberships since 1984.Crowd and host, like group and...

The verb "to fault" is the transitive form of the noun, "my fault."No one could find fault with your sentence = No one could fault your sentence. The noun is countable or uncountable. "Find fault" is an idiom, meaning "to criticize."

"church" meaning the building is countable and takes an article ("I live opposite a church"). "church" can be uncountable, with no article, in the sense I illustrated before. "state" is normally countable. "the state" and "the...

Basically, every nouns that are countable can be used as an uncountable except nouns that are countable in any context such as nations.Therefore, animals, plants, books, discussions are all either countable or uncountable depending on the context.And liquid, furniture, trash are always uncountable.

Not at will, no. You can only do this with uncountable nouns. "Nation" is always a countable noun, so you cannot write, for example, "Developed nation is ..." to refer to the entire class of developed nations. You would instead say "Developed nations are...". On...

Hi h & k, WELCOME TO THE FORUMS ! ! ! Thanks for joining us.I guess we'd consider as irregular plurals, things like deer, deer; man, men; child, children; hoof, hooves."Vocabulary" can be either countable or uncountable. His English vocabulary comprises only a hundred words,...

Not just desire. Very accomplished writers with a fine ear for the language are able to gauge when it is useful to present an apparent uncountable in the plural -- especially when it's a matter of abstract nouns. The majority of us merely competent writers don't typically invent such...