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Ladybird25 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Sense or senses?

When referring to a noun like "room," can I say like this?

In the sentence below, is "senses" all right, or should it be "sense"?

"nouns with both a countable and an uncountable senses"

Thanks for your help!
  

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In this example, "sense" is correct, so you could say: "nouns with both a countable and an uncountable sense". You have more than one "sense", but you identify each of them indivdually with the articles "a" and "an". You could also speak of an unspecified number of "senses" which are either countable or uncountable: "nouns with both countable and uncountable senses".

— Anonymous

  • In this example, "sense" is correct, so you could say: "nouns with both a countable and an uncountable sense".
  • You have more than one "sense", but you identify each of them indivdually with the articles "a" and "an".
  • You could also speak of an unspecified number of "senses" which are either countable or uncountable: "nouns with both countable and uncountable senses".
  • The main difference between these two is that in the first, you know there are two senses; one countable and the other uncountable.
  • In the second, it might be that the noun has many uncountable senses as well as many countable ones.
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In this example, "sense" is correct, so you could say: "nouns with both a countable and an uncountable sense". You have more than one "sense", but you identify each of them indivdually with the articles "a" and "an".

You could also speak of an unspecified number of "senses" which are either countable or uncountable: "nouns with both countable and uncountable senses".

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"countable" does not seem like the proper term to be used here. If you are counting the amount of "sense", then the proper word would be "quantifiable". Also, it would be "sense" (singular) because you state "a countable" and "an unacountable". That denotes that the adjective "countable" refers to a singular noun because the preposition "a" is used. So t
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Hi, Roman and Anonymous,

Now I understand.

Thank you for your help!
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