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Believer Posted 20 years ago
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"salad bowl" questions
1. When you have a partial sentence like the one below, how would you reconcile the situation where there are a mix of countable and uncountable nouns following a single article?
presents a fresh new technique and/or information for our beloved audience.
2. Sometimes, when I am seeing phrases like "a little bit less," I am not so sure which one to use, the one with "a little bit less of something" or "a little bit less something." Help. Can you think of some other similar phrases?
a little bit less of something
a little bit less something
3. When you have the word "repetition," what is the action verb that goes with it?
Do lots of repetition (repetitions??) ?
Make lots of repetition (repetitions??) ?
Do make lots of repetition (repetitions??) ? -- Is this an empathic version of the other two?
presents a fresh new technique and/or information for our beloved audience.
2. Sometimes, when I am seeing phrases like "a little bit less," I am not so sure which one to use, the one with "a little bit less of something" or "a little bit less something." Help. Can you think of some other similar phrases?
a little bit less of something
a little bit less something
3. When you have the word "repetition," what is the action verb that goes with it?
Do lots of repetition (repetitions??) ?
Make lots of repetition (repetitions??) ?
Do make lots of repetition (repetitions??) ? -- Is this an empathic version of the other two?
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Believer 1. When you have a partial sentence like the one below, how would you reconcile the situation where there are a mix of countable and uncountable nouns following a single article? presents a fresh new technique and/or information for our beloved audience.
- Believer 1.
- When you have a partial sentence like the one below, how would you reconcile the situation where there are a mix of countable and uncountable nouns following a single article?
- presents a fresh new technique and/or information for our beloved audience.
- Nothing needs to be reconciled because "information" does not require an article.
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1. When you have a partial sentence like the one below, how would you reconcile the situation where there are a mix of countable and uncountable nouns following a single article?
presents a fresh new technique and/or information for our beloved audience. Nothing needs to be reconciled because "information" d
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1. The a goes only with technique, not with information. The order may be changed to presents information and a fresh, new technique. This shows more clearly that the a goes only with technique.
2. less of is typically followed by a definite article and a countable noun.
We should decorate the room with a little bit less
2. less of is typically followed by a definite article and a countable noun.
We should decorate the room with a little bit less
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