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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

(an) enlightenment

Hello



Insights are beneficial to people and they are one of the greatest thrills that they will have in life but they are not enlightenment.

--- Shouldn't it be "an enlightenment"? If not, why?
  

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No, because 'enlightenment' is an uncountable noun. )

— Ferdis

  • No, because 'enlightenment' is an uncountable noun.
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No, because 'enlightenment' is an uncountable noun. (Please add commas after 'people' and 'life'.)
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ferdisNo, because 'enlightenment' is an uncountable noun.


Hi

Really! You cannot have two enlightenments?
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No. Enlightenment is a state of being. You also can't have "two happinesses".
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But I suppose that you can have two enlightenment experiences.

However I think it sounds pretty clumsy to say: I experienced two enlightenment experiences. I would rather say: I had two enlightenment experiences.
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That's still wrong, but not the same because here the countable noun is 'experience' and 'enlightenment' is used as an adjective, which it is not. In this case you can make an adjective from the present participle of the verb 'to enlighten': two enlightening experiences (compare to two moving cars).
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