By Universities, Countable nouns

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 misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if there...

Hi, I don't think there's the article 'a' before 000 right? University is a countable noun, so why no article? When we say 'I'm going to York University', 'York University' is a proper name (and thus we normally use a capital 'U'). That's why there is no article. If you say 'I'm going to a York...

I don't think there's the article 'a' before 000 right? University is a countable noun, so why no article? Also, without 000 I think the article can be used (what's the difference if it's not used?), like "I'm going to a university". Why is that? I have some suspicions in the matter, but...

"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 for both singular and plural e.g. deer 4: "They study hard...

Yoong Liat wrote:Hi Hoa ThaiFrom 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 and GCSE courses, and provide...

Hi Hoa ThaiFrom 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 and GCSE courses, and provide advices and...

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 Univ. is also one of the case. What is the...

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/ few/ a few Which one is the best...

*first greets all the faithful teachers here*Question (copied from my accounting exercise book):Lana Emerick handles cash receipts and has the authority to write off accounts receivable. This violates separation of (1)A. custody (2) of assets from accounting.B. operations from accountingC. duties...

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. The difference between the uncountable and countable...