Did I turn inito a countable noun properly?

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Hi,

Please check if I turned the sentence with an uncountable noun into the one with a countable noun.

1. Uncountable: Yours is well-done homework.

Countable: Yours in a well-done homework that took the term "homework" into a new dimension.

Yours is a well-done homework worthy of praise

2. Uncountable: It is cutting procurement of new equipment.

Countable: It is planning on making a procurement of new equipment its new priority.

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

It is planning on making THE procurement of new equipment its new priority.

Nef · Answer

I have trouble thinking of 'homework' as a countable noun. People often say homework assignments.

Example: I have two homework assignments. Not I have two homeworks.

(I'm in the western US. Maybe the usage is different elsewhere.)

Yankee · Answer

Nef(I'm in the western US. Maybe the usage is different elsewhere.)

The northeastern US agrees with you, Nef.

Believer, homework is not a very good word to attempt to change to countable. Your idea about taking something "to a new dimension" is good. You need to find uncountable things (words) that can be categorized by type or degree. Some ideas:

Theirs was a love so deep that ...
I doubt that I'll ever again experience a darkness as profound as the darkness of that night.
It was a snow that glistened like no other snow I'd ever seen.
There was a cheeriness in his voice that reflected his sudden success.

Believer · Answer

Thank you.

So the basic premise behind this?? is that not all uncountable nouns can be part of this transformation of turning itself into an countable noun and the chance of it being susceptable to this is limited by the convention (i.e., how they are used normally) and mostly limited to those uncounble nouns that can be categorized by types or degree because they are the ones that are realistically ?? susceptible to categorization in types and by particularization (??). In addition, it can be said any suitable uncountable noun has a potential to transform into a countable noun and if a person did make that effort and every one found it to be plausible, then that person has succeed in making kind of a new convention.

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Did I turn inito a countable noun properly?

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