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Believer Posted 19 years ago
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00I googled the phrase "a spectacular coverage of," trying to find out what are some possible situations where the uncountable noun "coverage" can be turned into countable and found these among some others. One example seems to be truncated but it is given here as seen on my computer screen by me at the time I looked at it.02br
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00Please say "Yes" or "No" and provide necessary explantions if you feel like to do so. Thank you. 02br
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01i001. CBS does 01u00a spectacular coverage02u00 of this event. It is one of the best live sports productions on t.v.02i02br
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00I think for this, the turning of "coverage" is acceptable because the subsequent sentence gives a detail as to how good it is by saying that it is ONE of the best live sports productions on t.v.02br
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01i002. Additionally, a special measles campaign supported by USAID in May-June 1995 achieve a spectacular coverage of 95% of children under five.02i02br
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00I think, the case here is more clear in that it is clearly mentioning what type of coverage it is -- it is a spectacular coverage of 01b0095% of children under five02b00. 02br
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00301i00.01u00 ning, altitude h = 1000 km and inclination i = 15 02u00allow a spectacular coverage of hte tropcical. belt: for each overpass, any target weas seen by the instrument (with a mean field fo view) of the . satelllite (Capderou, 1997). ...02i02br
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00That is what I seem to see on my computer screen. Here, the use of the accountable version is acceptable because it seems to say the underlined part allowed the spectacular coverage and in the absent of that special circumstance, it is mostly likely or is likely that this particular instance of spectacular coverage would and could not have happened. 0-
  

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0>Please say "Yes" or "No" 01font00to what? 02br
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00>I think for this, the turning of "coverage"01font00 (into what?)02font00 is acceptable0-
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0Hi Believer,02br
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00If you'll permit me to say so, I read all this and felt that you were trying too hard to find complicated explanations.05002br
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00I would just say that the noun 'coverage' can be countable when you start qualifying it.02br
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00eg there can be01b00 02b01font

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