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"The school gave me an education"
"We need someone with a knowledge of Chinese"
"They have a distrust on the authorities"
Education, Knowledge, and distruct are non-count nouns... so why do we use the article 'a' in front?
"We need someone with a knowledge of Chinese"
"They have a distrust on the authorities"
Education, Knowledge, and distruct are non-count nouns... so why do we use the article 'a' in front?
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Hi, Such words can be used in a countable manner if the speaker is thinking that there are different types. "The school gave me an education" The school gave me an education. And they gave each of 100 other people an education.
- Hi, Such words can be used in a countable manner if the speaker is thinking that there are different types.
- "The school gave me an education" The school gave me an education.
- And they gave each of 100 other people an education.
- Th implication is that they are not exactly the same type of education.
- "We need someone with a knowledge of Chinese" eg not with a knowledge of Japanese.
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Hi,
Such words can be used in a countable manner if the speaker is thinking that there are different types.
"The school gave me an education"
The school gave me an education. And they gave each of 100 other people an education. Th implication is that they are not exactly the same type of education.
Such words can be used in a countable manner if the speaker is thinking that there are different types.
"The school gave me an education"
The school gave me an education. And they gave each of 100 other people an education. Th implication is that they are not exactly the same type of education.
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