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0 I think A may be correct too but here writer tried to imply that a lot of clothes were given that they were put in the bags to be delivered. 0-

0I don't accept that clothes is countable. By most criteria for countable nouns, it is not.02br
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00Countable nouns must be modifiable by a number. 02br
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00Countable nouns must occur in both the singular and plural.02br
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00I cannot say I have many clothes, but I can say I have a lot of clothes. The wor is better understood

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10But, if "clothes" is a countable noun and in plural form, why not choose A as well? Please advise.12br
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10I think that 'clothes' is not countable. You wouldn't say, for instance, 02br
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0Well, I am still puzzled and cannot decide if we can say "several clothes." By searching on Google in [url=05000] British websites only [/url], I've noticed that nearly all the occurrences use 'clothes' as a noun modifier. Eg 'several clothes shops', 'several clothes stalls', 'several clothes items', 'several clothes sizes' and so on. 02br
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0>To sum up, I'm under the impression that a BrE native speaker wouldn't say "I have several clothes." 02br
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00 I think you're right. 02br
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00 But I think it's plural, not uncountable. 02br
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10But I think it's plural, not uncountable. 12br
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10And so do I.0-

0Hi all,02br
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00I am pretty sure that clothes is a plural noun but I don't know whether it is countable or non-countable; my dictionaries don't mention it. Plural but non-countable sounds weird to me, though.02br
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00I guess why so many non-native speakers including me are confused about using the word "clothes" is that we think clothes is like a ja