By Difference between, Uncountable nouns

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

No, they are uncountable nouns. If we want to count them we have to say 'two pieces of homework' or 'two items/pieces of mail', for example. We wouldn't say two homeworks or two mails.

1. Here is a sentence from the key "But I hope you know what you're doing" I'm wondering... Can we say "I'm hoping" or rather not? and is it totally incorrect or in other contexts it would be ok? Grammatically it's okay, but "I hope" sounds more natural to me at the moment. 2. Just tell me if I'm...