CalifJim wrote: 1. <<the people of France sided with Sarkozy. That's because the French, who until now had used violent protests to counter government-led labor reforms, felt a heightened sense of crisis regarding the future of their

I was merely quoting from my dictionary. It said that news is plural in form but always used as a singular. As Maple points out, another way of stating it is to say it's an uncountable noun. In any case, no matter what you call it, it must

Believer wrote: Hi, Yoong Liat I was looking at my Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for the word 'ash' and it had a notation among other notations something like this. Can you tell me if that tells anything about its

Thank you. I see those words 'rain' and 'works' appear quite a lot in their countable forms but rarely I see the other majority?? of uncountable nouns appear as countable nouns so readily and accepted with open understanding. For example, I