1. It may be unwise to say that something can be done to all proper nouns in English because there seem to be so many exceptions to every rule. However, using a and the with proper nouns in certain contexts is normal. The of-genitive - or of

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “ creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my

" I love to listen to music" "I love to listen to songs " And by the way there isn't plural form for the word ' music ' , isn't it?; Uncountable nouns can't be used in situations where a plural would be used. Some English words are the same

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,

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, undergraduate, A-Levels

Hi, After a fake academic degree scandal of Ms.Shin, a former professor at Dongguk University, is exposed, a continual coming out of celebrities’ ‘fake degree’ is following like domino effect : Ms.Yun’s confession that she hasn’t attended Ewha

This is a question from Unit 87 of Cambridge University Press 的 Grammar in Use. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Listen carefully; I'm going to give you ________advice. little/ a little/

Milky, I'm sorry, but the 'sheep' analogy is not relevantl Here, quoted from Purdue University Online Writing Lab : While uncountable nouns do not generally take a plural form, sometimes they may be pluralized when used in a countable sense.

I'm the anonymous who put the original. The sentence given by Taka seems to have been in the English reading test in the entrance exam of a Japanese university. I guess the questioners changed the original text to avoid using difficult worlds

Some university universities(you need the plural when you’re using “some”) are adopting Internet-based learning(or “e-learning” for short) while others are sticking to the traditional, face-to-face teaching. Personally, I prefer the former. I’d