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Mitsuo23 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

pls provide some uncountables

(Excuse me for reposting this. It seems like my writing was bad and confusing so I rewrote it.)

Would you come up with some basic uncountable nouns that are used as a countable noun due to the adjective.
e.g.

He's having lunch.
He's having a business lunch.
It'll be rain.
It'll be a heavy rain.

knowledge should be another but I prefer more basic ones.

Thank you,
M
  

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mitsuwao23 Would you come up with some basic uncountable nouns that are used as a countable noun due to the adjective. Hmmm. There must be a lot of those, but there is no list anywhere that I know of.

— CalifJim

  • mitsuwao23 Would you come up with some basic uncountable nouns that are used as a countable noun due to the adjective.
  • Hmmm.
  • There must be a lot of those, but there is no list anywhere that I know of.
  • It would probably be too large a list to be useful.
  • Besides, a very large proportion of nouns can be used either as countable or as uncountable nouns, so it's not so much that the noun is countable or uncountable, but that the usage of the noun is countable or uncountable.
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mitsuwao23Would you come up with some basic uncountable nouns that are used as a countable noun due to the adjective.
Hmmm. There must be a lot of those, but there is no list anywhere that I know of. It would probably be too large a list to be useful. Besides, a very large proportion of nouns can be used either as countable or as uncountable nouns, so it's
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CalifJimso it's not so much that the noun is countable or uncountable, but that the usage of the noun is countable or uncountable.
Absolutely. This is why I can't find the words on my own.

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate your help.
M
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mitsuwao23This is why I can't find the words on my own.
Yes. I understand. Even a native speaker like me would have to research this for many, many hours just to find a handful of words of the kind you are interested in.

Maybe a better approach is to write down examples as you find them in your reading. I can't think of any more efficient way to do
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