By Dates, Uncountable nouns

Thank you, Avangi. In my previous post, I should have used third-person verb tenses, 'sounds' and 'gives' -- proper subject-verb agreement wasn't made due to my carelessness. Going back to your request for examples of cases where I would feel something in quotes could not be...

Hi, It has been known to me that a gerund can function as a noun and should or likely to be treated more as an uncountable noun than a countable noun. Mixing of sugar and flour makes this dough ... If you want to be specific, I think you could write: The mixing of sugar and flour makes this...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...