School Vs Schools
Hello. I notice that the school is countable and when we talk about ' going back to school ' we always use the singular form. Since there are many students from different schools, why don't we say ' students are going back to schools ' ?
Thank you.
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The designators "countable" and "non-countable" are actually not as useful as you may think. A great many nouns can be changed from one category to another just by the way they are used in a sentence. That means you can't always take the labels as absolute truth.
- The designators "countable" and "non-countable" are actually not as useful as you may think.
- A great many nouns can be changed from one category to another just by the way they are used in a sentence.
- That means you can't always take the labels as absolute truth.
- So anyway, students are going back to school, not to schools.
- The emphasis is on going back to the activity of doing school work, not on going back to all those physical places where the schools are located.
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The designators "countable" and "non-countable" are actually not as useful as you may think.
A great many nouns can be changed from one category to another just by the way they are used in a sentence. That means you can't always take the labels as absolute truth.
So anyway, students are going back to school, not to schools. The emphasis is on going back to the activity of doing s
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