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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

on your trip/journey/travel/tour

Be sure to take plenty of clean underwear on your trip/journey/travel/tour.

Do all of the bolded words fit in the above and mean about the same? Thanks.
  

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Travel is an uncountable noun for the activity in general, so change it in your sentence to the plural: travels. Normally, however, I would just use trip for a single excursion.

— Mister Micawber

  • Travel is an uncountable noun for the activity in general, so change it in your sentence to the plural: travels.
  • Normally, however, I would just use trip for a single excursion.
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Travel is an uncountable noun for the activity in general, so change it in your sentence to the plural: travels. Normally, however, I would just use trip for a single excursion.
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Mister MicawberTravel is an uncountable noun for the activity in general, so change it in your sentence to the plural: travels. Normally, however, I would just use trip for a single excursion.

Thanks, Mister, for the right answer.

But I still don't know why the other options don't work.
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I didn't say they wouldn't work-- I just said that I would use trip.
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Mister MicawberI didn't say they wouldn't work-- I just said that I would use trip.

Thanks, Mister.

To make sure, do they all convey a similar idea as "trip?"

By the way, you mentioned that "travel" is an uncountable noun in the previous post, but why did you add "s" at the end of "travel?" Isn't it odd?
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Yes, they do. Travels means a long trip or several trips.
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Mister MicawberYes, they do. Travels means a long trip or several trips.

Thanks, Mister.

But I still don't know why you use the plural "travels."
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I liked it better-- the writer speaks of underwear, which suggests a specific trip.
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Mister MicawberI liked it better-- the writer speaks of underwear, which suggests a specific trip.

Thanks, Mister.

If it suggests a specific trip, then doesn't it make more sense to use the singular "travel?"
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No!
Travel is an uncountable noun for the activity in general
Travels means a long trip or several trips.
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