Pronoun for uncountable noun
hello,
I'm a English learner. I have a question relating to this following sentence:
Yesterday i bought some furniture for my kitchen. Some of them are so expensive.
My question is that:
- "Furniture" in the first sentence is uncountable noun, so whether "them" could be used as pronoun for "furniture" or we will use " Some of it" instead?
- Some of Noun+Verb. If Noun is plural the following verb must be plural and contrary, if Noun is uncountable the verb must be singular. My problem is: If we use them( to refer "Furniture") and the "Furniture" itself is uncountable noun, thus the verb must be singular. In other word, the sentence should be rewritten like this:
Yesterday i bought some furniture for my kitchen. Some of them is so expensive.
I'm so confused about this matter. Could you help me?
Thank you so much.
Top answer
EllenVN Yesterday I bought some furniture for my kitchen. Some of it was so expensive. CB
- EllenVN Yesterday I bought some furniture for my kitchen.
- Some of it was so expensive.
- CB
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EllenVNYesterday I bought some furniture for my kitchen. Some of it was so expensive.
CB
0Yesterday , I bought some pieces of furniture for my kitchen. Some pieces of furniture are so expensive.
I prefer to write as : I bought furniture for my kitchen yesterday. Some pieces of it were so expensive.
'furniture' is an uncountable noun. I am not sure if it is correct when I use is, it for furniture because I need correct answer too.
0A small extra comment.
In careful writing, say 'Some of it was very expensive'.
Use 'so' if a consequence is stated or implied,
eg Some of it was so expensive that I had to borrow some money from my parents.
But note that the use of 'so' instead of 'very' is extremely common in everyday English.
Clive
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