Hmm.. How do i say this.. How do we know if it should be in a plural or singular forms? In your second example, "Give the family my best regards", I would not know to make it plural if you had not made that as an example. Isn't

Hi, This phenomenon caught my attention recently: I saw this expression written in a book: We finished the project in as little as two days I know that with uncountable nouns we use "few", but yet in this particular

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.

To the extent that you can hold a heart in your hand, it differs from the mind and the soul (assuming that mind does not equal brain). So you wish to talk about "heart" in the abstract. The soul seems to be an intangible concept by

Hi, Different than those who rely on a dictionary to find out whether a particular word is a countable or uncountable noun, do native speakers rely their own knowledge of word usage that naturally stem from years of usage? I think if you look

Hi Cool Breeze and everyone, First, I would like to disclaim my ability to read Mr. Steinback’s mind. Second, beauty is in the eye of the beholder; thus, whatever I share below is just a pure figment of my imagination.

n o s p a m p l e a s e schrieb: * Journalist with an experience in .. I believe there shouldn't be an before experience. What difference does it make to have or not to have "an" before experience. Exoperience can be both countable

Yoong Liat wrote: Hi Hoa Thai From a webpage of Cambridge University International Education and Training Society, http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/iets/ " ... Summarise general situations and common difficulties for students in graduate,

Hoa Thai wrote: I was told that a or an should not be used to mark noncount nouns, sush as water, gold, etc.. That is simple until I encounter abstract nouns! For instance, give me an advice is incorrect since advice is an abstract noun.

Hi I would like to know if the expressions like "So beautiful a house" or "So stupid a person" are possible with countable nouns only! How can I use such expressions with uncountable nouns? For example, 1- It was so fatal (a?) poison.