how to count "a shout"

mitsuwao23What is the definition of "one shout"?

There is none. I suppose until it finishes.

Here is one shout: "Hey!"
Here is another one: 'Hey! Get your big dirty gumboot off the bumper of my Lamborghini!"

If multiple people are shouting various things, you would use the plural: "Shouts were heard in the darkness."

Thank you for the replies,

Is there any contexts or situations in which you might say, "I heard two shouts in the distance."?

Thank you,
M

mitsuwao23Is there any contexts or situations in which you might say, "I heard two shouts in the distance."?

Yes, if you did. We have given you examples of plural shouts already.

Yes, you are right. I have already got an example of plural shouts, but to me "shouts" and "two (or could be three) shouts" are different. The former sounds more like "noise" to me so that although they are counted the speaker is not required what "one shout" exactly means to his, while the latter sounds more like the speaker has clear idea what he is counting.


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mitsuwao23to me "shouts" and "two (or could be three) shouts" are different. The former sounds more like "noise" to me so that although they are counted the speaker is not required what "one shout" exactly means to his, while the latter sounds more like the speaker has clear idea what he is counting.

No, I don't see that at all.

mitsuwao23

OK, thank you for the reply.
M