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Re: 1) "It's the best movie yet"- Does this sentence mean this is the best movie ever?

Clive — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:45:23 GMT

Hi,

1) "It's the best movie yet"- Does this sentence mean this is the best movie ever? The best up to the present time.

2) What are the differences between exculpate and acquit and exonerate?

The first that comes to mind is that #1 is pretty rare, #2 is extremely common, and #3 is less common.

Here are a few comments.
exculpate - free someone from blame. Not necessarily related to crimes/courts.
acquit - decide someone is not giuilty. (Also has other meanings). Commonly related to crimes/coutrts.
exonerate - show someone is innocent after they are thought to be guilty.

3) Can two or more uncountable noun going with and go with a plural verb? <<< Hunh? This is a hard question to understand.

Money and love are two different things OK

Money and love is two different thingNot OK

4)How can you define self realization? Does it mean the same as realization or actualization?

self-realization - focuses on 'myself'.
realization - can focus on something outside 'myself'.

actualization - focuses on making ideas into reality.

5) In this sentence:" You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat (somewhat what? This statement seems incomplete); but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extradordinary merits of this wonderful man."

What class of words does fit stand in? Noun or adj? If it is noun, how can it come after the more? It's an adjective. McCain and Obama are both fit to be Prsident, but of the two of them, Obama is the more fit.

Supposed you don't know the word "render" and have to base on the context to guess. So here are two possible choices" provide" and "make". What is your choice? Why? It depends on the context. Would you like to provide a few, for comments?

Best wishes, Clive

1) "It's the best movie yet"- Does this sentence mean this is the best movie ever?

Belly — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:32:44 GMT

1) "It's the best movie yet"- Does this sentence mean this is the best movie ever?

2) What are the differences between exculpate and acquit and exonerate?

3) Can two or more uncountable noun going with and go with a plural verb?

Money and love are two different things

Money and love is two different thing

4)How can you define self realization? Does it mean the same as realization or actualization?

5) In this sentence:" You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat ; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extradordinary merits of this wonderful man."

What class of words does fit stand in? Noun or adj? If it is noun, how can it come after the more?

Supposed you don't know the word "render" and have to base on the context to guess. So here are two possible choices" provide" and "make". What is your choice? Why?

Thanks in advance

1) "It's the best movie yet"- Does this sentence mean this is the best movie ever?

2) What are the differences between exculpate and acquit and exonerate?

3) Can two or more uncountable noun going with and go with a plural verb?

Money and love are two different things

Money and love is two different thing

4)How can you define self realization? Does it mean the same as realization or actualization?

What class of words does fit stand in? Noun or adj? If it is noun, how can it come after the more?

Supposed you don't know the word "render" and have to base on the context to guess. So here are two possible choices" provide" and "make". What is your choice? Why?

Thanks in advance

Re: Plural-meaning nouns

Mister Micawber — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:47:59 GMT

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These words function differently.

Youth and membership can be countable or uncountable nouns:

Youth is carefree.
There is a youth / There are three youths standing on the corner.
Membership is free.
I have had a membership / They have had their memberships since 1984.

Crowd and host, like group and team, can be considered as a single unit or as a lot of people. All can modify both countables and uncountables:

(All) the crowd/group/team/host is restless.
(All) the crowd/group/team/host are arguing among themselves.

People is the plural of person, but is singular when discussing ethnicities:

There is a person / There are three people in the closet.
The peoples of India are legion.
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much thanks?

Teo — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:45:11 GMT

1. Much thanks also to everyone I had the privilege of working with at McGraw-Hill.
2. And ever so much thanks and appreciation for George, who has brought me the gift of finally having both love in my heart and work that I love, all at the same time.

According to what I know, "thanks" is a plural noun. How come the word "thanks" is modified by "much", which is used to modify singular uncountable noun?
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Thank you very much for your reply.

corresponds

Evo25 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:18:50 GMT

(1)the money i've saved corresponds/correspond to the amount i need for my course.
which one is corrrect?
money is appear as uncountable noun.money here can be considered as plural or singular?or neither one?

Re: Some problems with plural noun?

Mr Wordy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:13:30 GMT

The plural of "vocabulary" is "vocabularies". This word follows the normal rules for forming plurals.

The other two that you mention are not "irregular plural nouns". They are called "uncountable nouns", and they do not have a plural form. If you search Google for "countable and uncountable nouns" then you will find lots of information. See, for example, http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslcount2.html

Re: Use of a plural

CalifJim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:27:08 GMT

Anonymous
a plural version of a noun that could be either countable or uncountable.

There's no such thing as an uncountable noun in the plural. Plurality is one of the marks of countability. Once the noun is in the plural you know you are dealing with a countable noun.

Anonymous
that a person desires to use it is a good enough reason to use it or them?

Not just desire. Very accomplished writers with a fine ear for the language are able to gauge when it is useful to present an apparent uncountable in the plural -- especially when it's a matter of abstract nouns. The majority of us merely competent writers don't typically invent such novel turns of phrase.

Re: sport

Yoong Liat — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:25:58 GMT

Hi LiJ

This topic has been discussed before and I hope you will find the following helpful.

In British English 'sport' is the general term and is an uncountable noun.

For example: (1) He is not interested in sport. (2) There is too much sport on television. (3) She excels at sport.

If it refers to particular types of sport, the term 'sport/s' (a countable noun) is used.

For example: (1) Bobby's sport is tennis. (2) My favourite sports are tennis and hockey.

In American English, 'sports' is a plural noun.

For example: He likes watching sports on television.

quoted content as noun - long question

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:20:11 GMT

Hi,
Please take a look at this.

... involved with modern, western "come every two hours and sit in the room."

I am pretty sure you can treat "come every two hours and sit in the room" like an uncountable noun.

Can I make it a countable noun like this?
Everyday, a "come every two hours and sit in the toom" of this 'no-worry', carefree dude is making a lot of people feel uneasy. -- countable by an instance?
A highly idiosyncratic "come every two hours and sit in the room" of this carefree dude is taking a heavey toll on my freetime. -- countable by a type?
If the above sentence doesn't look correct, can you give me a correct one where a quoted content is countable?

Can I make it plural?
This 'no-worry', carefree dude's 'come-every-two-hours-and-sit-in-the-room's' are making a lot of people feel uneasy.
If the above sentence doesn't look correct, can you give me a correct one where a quoted content is countable? Normally, I think either a hyphen or quotation marks are needed but to make it plural, can I use both?

If I added the word 'hours', is there any consideration to be given as to whether to put that word outside the quote or inside?

These 'come every two hours and sit in the room hours' are taking a toll on my freetime.

These 'come every two hours and sit in the room' hours are taking a toll on my freetime.

Re: creams and detergents

Goodman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:19:09 GMT

Mr. Miclawer,

I wasnât going to expand this pluralization discussion on âcreamsâ and âwinesâ.
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 misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if there is another side of the usage
I am not aware of.
This is perhaps not relevant to the discussion but to establish my point, I think it needs
to be said. Mrs. Milton whom I learned English from was an excellent English teacher who
also had taught for 5 years at the Beijing University, which is a top University in China, by
invitation of the Government. Many of her students had landed positions working for the
Chinese Government and the U.N. as translators and interpreters. I was very blessed to be
among her students. Most of my English foundation was learned from her. And I was really
surprised to see your examples pluralizing âcreamâ and âwineâ. By your earlier examples, which I
compared with the information found on the WEB, I must ask this question. Am I to understand
that itâs completely grammatical to say in a restaurant âmay I have 2 waters and soups?â. I know
we hear that all the time but if we are discussing the whether a particular usage is grammatically
correct, running into this type of scenario is inevitable. Here are some âsupportsâ you had
asked for which may not may not be validated to your satisfaction. No doubt, you are the
English authority and perhaps possess âsuperiorityâ over many frequented this forum and I donât
mean to sound like challenging your examples, let alone to waste anymore of your time.
Nonetheless, as a serious learner, Iâd owe the real answers to myself and the learners if I just
accepted your answers as given. I may be wrong with my search result and you are correct.
And If so, here is my âadvanced apologyâ.

Nouns only countable nouns can be either singular or plural. ... He had some ice cream on
his face. He had an ice cream. mass. countable ...
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http://ajaja.paradoxinc.org/Basic/Grammar/CountAndNoncount.ht

Liquids: beer, milk, coffee, blood, cream, juice, honey, gasoline, oil, shampoo, soup, tea, water, wine.

Solids and semi-solids: Bread, butter, cheese, ice, ice cream, lettuce, toast, meat, beef, chicken, fish, ham, lamb, pork, chalk, 
copper, cotton, glass, gold, iron, , soap, tin, toothpaste, wood, wool,

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/countnon.html

A Revision of the RulesThe exceptions require that the rule for pluralizing be revised: count nouns and nouns used 
in a count sense can be pluralized; noncount nouns and nouns used in a noncount sense cannot.

	Pluralizes with -s	Does not Pluralize
Count Noun	X
Count Use	X
Noncount Noun		X
Noncount Use		X

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If coffee is an uncountable noun, cream certainly is by common sense. Thus the rule applies.

Â· Answerer 1

Many nouns can be used as countables or uncountables. It depends on whether you are thinking of a substance or
a single serving or object made of the substance. So:

Beer is fattening (uncountable - the substance)
Don't drink more than three beers a day. (Countable - servings)

I love chocolate (uncountable - the substance)
Get me a box of chocolates (countable - individual pieces)

A vase made of blown glass (uncountable - the substance)
A glass of wine (A single piece / artifact)

Coffee gives me indigestion (the substance - uncountable)
I need at least three coffees to wake up on a morning (countable - individual servings)

2 months ago

http://www3.law.cuny.edu/wc/students/multilingual/articles.html

Uncountable nouns often refer to drinks and food, other general substances, or concepts (meat, tea, steel, information, justice):

Examples of Uncountable Nouns in English:

Food and Drink: bacon, beef, beer, bread, butter, cabbage, candy, cauliflower, chicken, chocolate, coffee, corn,
cream, fish, fruit, juice, lettuce, meat, milk, oil, pasta, rice, salt, spinach, sugar, tea, water, whiskey, wine, yogurt.
General Substances: air,cement, clay, coal, copper, dirt, dust, foam, gasoline, gold, ice, leather, paper, petroleum,
plastic, rain, rubber, silver, soap, steel, wood, wool.
Abstract nouns: abandonment, access, adultery, advice, alimony, anger, anguish, arson, authentication, beauty, capacity,
conduct, confidence, courage, deprivation, desperation, discretion, employment, empowerment, evidence, extortion, fortune,
fun, happiness, health, honesty, housing, information, insurance, intelligence, intent, knowledge, land, love, malice, negligence,
poverty, privacy, real estate, sadness, satisfaction, strength, truth, wealth.
Others: biology, clothing, darkness, equipment, furniture, gossip, homework, jewelry, luggage, machinery, mail, money, music,
news, poetry, pollution, research, scenery, traffic, transportation, violence, weather, weight, work.

Some uncountable nouns (except for concepts) can be turned into countable nouns by preposing a phrase to them
(two bottles of wine, a bar of soap, a piece of information, an act of violence, a burst of anger, a piece of evidence).

e.g. The defendant's lawyer is sure the judge will accept new evidence in this case.

vs. The defendant's lawyer is sure the judge will accept three new pieces of evidence in this case.

Some uncountable nouns can be used in the plural, but their meaning changes:

experience / experiences: e.g., He had to rely on experience / I lived unforgettable experiences

Search results for 'tag:Uncountable nouns tag:Plurals' matching tags 'Uncountable nouns' and 'Plurals'

Re: 1) "It's the best movie yet"- Does this sentence mean this is the best movie ever?

1) "It's the best movie yet"- Does this sentence mean this is the best movie ever?

Re: Plural-meaning nouns

much thanks?

corresponds

Re: Some problems with plural noun?

Re: Use of a plural

Re: sport

quoted content as noun - long question

Re: creams and detergents

Mr. Miclawer,

Nouns only countable nouns can be either singular or plural. ... He had some ice cream on his face. He had an ice cream. mass. countable ...www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/tta/wc/nouns.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar pages

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Nouns only countable nouns can be either singular or plural. ... He had some ice cream on
his face. He had an ice cream. mass. countable ...
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/tta/wc/nouns.htm - 21k - Cached - Similar pages