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Newguest Posted 19 years ago
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00Why is this sentence wrong (according to my manual at least): "A large sum has been put aside for cancer01b00 researches" 02b02br
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00This one (according to my manual) is OK: "A large sum has been put aside for cancer 01b00research02b00" WHY CAN'T I USE "RESEARCHES"02br
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00Wrong: The Professor has been doing 01b00the research 02b00on ...02br
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00Right: The Professor has been doing 01b00research 02b00on... WHY CAN'T I USE "THE" IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE02br
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00Wrong: He is 01b00leading researches 02b00on the causes of cancer.02br
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00Right: He is 01b00doing research/engaged in research 02b00on the causes of cancer.02br
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0You can't use "researches" simply because "research" is uncountable.0-
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0 When referring to the scientific research, the singular form "research" is used, to identify the whole research in an area, for example "cancer research". If you want to identify a particular research, done by a group, you may want to identify it as a "research project", or so.02br
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00"the research" is not used because "research" is not uncountable, so you use "the" ref
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0I've been taught that 'the professor has been doing 01b01font00a02font02b00 research on ...' is incorrect. 02br
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00I once wrote 'I am carrying out 01b01font00a piece of02font02b00 research on ...' but my sentence was marked wrong, and I was told it sho
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0I, personally, would never say "doing 01i00a02i00 research", so I can't imagine why you would have been taught that.02br
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00I would (and frequently do) say "a piece of research on/about", which is perfectly acceptable to my BrE ears, as is "some research on".0-
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0 In my opinion, that's because "news" is actually uncoutable, and "a piece of" is applied on uncountable nouns. "research" is not an uncountable noun, it's just used to indicate the generic concept of study (at least when used as "scientific research": it's different, I think, when used as "investigations"). So, "some" is more appropriate.02br
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00Regarding "a research",
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0Thank you, Ruby Rose.02br
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00My former teacher (the one who marked "a piece of research" wrong) is British, as well. 05002br
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00(PS: I wrote that "doing a research" is incorrect, check earlier)010id1
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0The word 'research' is 01u00uncountable02u00 -- just like the word 'information'. That means you cannot say '10 researches' and you also can01b00not02b00 say 'one/a research'. But you can say things such as:02br
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0 I'm definitely confused now: because "researches" it's not wrong, is it? Googleing it there are a lot of results, maybe some of them are wrong (and some refer to the verb), but I think that there can't be some many errors around...0-
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0Hi Zeppe, 02br
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00Please read again the previous posts:01blockquote
01cite10Tanit12cite10You can't use "researches" simply because "research" is uncountable.12br
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0 I can see it now! It wasn't a matter of trust, I'm wise enough to trust somebody whose first language is english... I was just trying to understand why you can say researches if research is uncountable, but from the cambridge dictionary seems that the plural form is another way to say the same thing, and that could explain all the results from the web.0-
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