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Lcchang Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

concerns

I'd like to find out if "concern", as a noun, countable or non-countable. In Simple Wiktionary, it shows either of them.

http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/concern

However, the dictionary doesn't give any example of the word as a non-countable noun. Could anyone help make one for me? Thanks a lot.
  

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Most of the supposedly countable examples at that Wiktionary entry are in fact uncountable. Here are a couple more: Concern about the economy is growing. The news was greeted with concern.

— GPY

  • Most of the supposedly countable examples at that Wiktionary entry are in fact uncountable.
  • Here are a couple more: Concern about the economy is growing.
  • The news was greeted with concern.
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Most of the supposedly countable examples at that Wiktionary entry are in fact uncountable. Here are a couple more:

Concern about the economy is growing.
The news was greeted with concern.
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I am sorry, but I mean "countable". Could you give me an example?

LCChang
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LcchangI am sorry, but I mean "countable". Could you give me an example?LCChang
In "a concern" it is always countable:

This is a concern of mine.

Whenever the word is used in the plural, that is also a countable use:

He told me about his concerns.
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