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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...

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...

I am one of those people who learned American English as a second language. American English dictionaries never mention anything about a particular noun being countable and uncountable. I learned mass nouns and abstract nouns, both of which are uncountable. I had thought it was up to...

Hello Infinity. I'm a mere English learner from Japan, but could you allow me to throw my 2 cents on your question? Frankly speaking, I'd say you'd better give up the hope you could get a conclusive answer to the question. I have raised a similar question before in this forum but I could...

Yeah, they are countable nouns It depends on the situation, sometimes an abstract noun can be defined as countable if you mean different thing. eg time You can make it a countable noun if you refer to the particular time frame. eg. I came in several times before and each time I saw...

Example: requirement --> requirements qualification -- qualifications query -- queries Are the above nouns are countable nouns? Can I add "s" after these nouns? Are there any good way or dictionary which can help us to determine if a particular abstract noun is a countable or...