Hi Mach 2, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums! We like to talk about countable and uncountable nouns. (Sometimes a given noun may act one way at one time and the other way at another time.) Both types could involve scalar quantities.

"Compared to . . . " indicates that the comparison has already been made and this is the result. "Compare to . . ." could be used when the speaker/writer is inviting the listener/reader to make a comparison. I would be more

Please kindly indicate the correct answers for the following questions and justifications to the answers. 1. They do these things so quietly that nobody is ever sure of what (is/ are) happening. 2. Various kinds of food (has /have) been

Hi Amy >However, even when it means "many pieces of news', it is used with a singular verb. Do you mean 'a three pieces of news are reported' is incorrect? If so, this is a little different to an uncountable noun, isn't it? Because we can

Feebs11 wrote: News is a plural noun always used with a singular verb, meaning information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television. Hi Feebs I was taught that 'news' is an

Selecter wrote: Maya2 wrote: Nona is right Majority has plural value It's not always true. A/The majority of + plural noun = plural verb (are) The majority of + uncountable noun = singular verb (is) Moroccan is a countable

Hi guys, The majority of + uncountable noun = singular verb (is) This structure is somewhat controversial. My dictionary comments that 'Some people feel that majority in this sense should only be used with countable nouns', although it goes

Maya2 wrote: Nona is right Majority has plural value It's not always true. A/The majority of + plural noun = plural verb (are) The majority of + uncountable noun = singular verb (is)

In the following cases, beer/wine/cruide oil are not countable nouns. Therefore, in order to count them, I added extra information and changed them as follows: 1. Two bottles of beer 2. Two bottles of wine 3. 1,000 gallons of cruide oil Now my

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