In Nouns^x, Countable or uncountable^x, Articles^x

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 page:...

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 apple Jack: Where did you get it from? Jane: I ate the apple that was on the...

"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...

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...". ...

I'd say I agree with MrM. My dictionary (Longman) lists those words saying , which means they can be treated as countable or uncountable nouns, generally speaking. Anyway, even for the uncountable words it doesn't explicitly list as countable too, I think we can say uncountable nouns can...

Hi there, I am from an asian country (korea) and Korean doesn't distinguish countable or uncountable nouns so I have some problem with this concept even though I have been living in english speaking country for 10 years. Now the word "lack" according to the online Longman...

CalifJim wrote: Not sure why you added this. Yes, it is possible to say one evening or an evening when evening is countable, but if we recognize that in the subject sentence evening is non-countable, and the problem is the , not a or one , I don't see where the logic is going . the is...

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...

Hi, Please tell me whether the word 'mission' is countable or uncountable? Countable It might be my imagination but I see some words that seem to be strictly countable being written without the articles when followed with the word (preposition??) 'as', is it just my imagination? He...

Hi, Please tell me whether the word 'mission' is countable or uncountable? as mission as Christian mission as a mission to help others in need It might be my imagination but I see some words that seem to be strictly countable being written without the articles when followed with...