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Hi,I know the nouns like beauty and courage are uncountble nouns that are abstractions in nature and a resource book noted/indicated that all the following expressions of quantity can be used for uncountables. OK, are all these correct?a little beauty/courage   much beauty/courage    a great deal of beauty/courage    no beauty/couragesome beauty/courage     no beauty/courage   a lot of beauty/courage    plenty of beauty/couragemost of beauty/courage   all beauty/courage As you know there are numerous abstractive uncountable nouns and my question is whether or not can all the expressions of quantity illustrated above be used everytime if right context exists for sentences?

Nona the brit · Accepted Answer

Beauty sounds wrong with all of them - I can think up a couple of contexts where you might be able to use them but they are pretty forced.

For courage, they are all ok apart from 'most of' and 'all'.

Cool Breeze · Answer

Except for most of beauty/courage, all your expressions are grammatically correct. However, as Nona the Brit said, you may have a hard time trying to find a situation in which to use some of them.

Most cases of most of + a noun without an article are wrong. Normally, you cannot say most of gold, most of water or most of cats. You need a pronoun or a definite article before the noun:

most of my cats
most of these cats
most of the water (that) you drank

There are exceptions. Many proper nouns (e.g. place names) can follow most of:

Most of Scotland was covered with snow.

Also, if a common noun doesn't normally take an article and is never used in the plural, most of may precede it:

Such a blast would destroy most of mankind/humankind.

Anonymous · Answer

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