By Uncountable nouns, Literature

'Darkness' on the other hand is not exclusively an uncountable noun (contrary to popular belief), as a selection of the results from a British National Corpus search for 'a darkness' show below: B1C 2033 And all you are like a darkness around it; BN3 534 If ever a baby brought tremendous joy...

People have found this text useful so I am repeating it here in this entirety with error fixed (there are several posts combined in it) Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass,...

Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass, abstract… However what is more important is to understand that the context is equally important. You can turn many words into abstract if...