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Cho7712 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
skies
Looking up the word sky in the dictionary, I come to know that it can be used as not only an uncountable noun but a plural form.
e.g. During the day it'll become mainly dry with clear skies.
Then, what actual difference in use between 'singular sky' and 'plural skies' is there?
And sky as a noncountable noun is only used as a metaphor for heaven? If not, what reason could it be to make you differentiate a singular countable sky from a noncountable sky?
e.g. During the day it'll become mainly dry with clear skies.
Then, what actual difference in use between 'singular sky' and 'plural skies' is there?
And sky as a noncountable noun is only used as a metaphor for heaven? If not, what reason could it be to make you differentiate a singular countable sky from a noncountable sky?
Top answer
The sky is an observation of what's above the earth. It is often used in the plural, so it is countable. An artist can paint many skies - clear blue skies, skies with puffy white clouds, rain-filled skies, pink, orange and purple skies at sunrise and sunset, and dark starry skies at night, or moonlit skies with no stars.
- The sky is an observation of what's above the earth.
- It is often used in the plural, so it is countable.
- An artist can paint many skies - clear blue skies, skies with puffy white clouds, rain-filled skies, pink, orange and purple skies at sunrise and sunset, and dark starry skies at night, or moonlit skies with no stars.
- Wish for a pilot: may you always fly in clear skies.
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The sky is an observation of what's above the earth. It is often used in the plural, so it is countable.
An artist can paint many skies - clear blue skies, skies with puffy white clouds, rain-filled skies, pink, orange and purple skies at sunrise and sunset, and dark starry skies at night, or moonlit skies with no stars.
Wish for a pilot: may you always fly in clear skies.
An artist can paint many skies - clear blue skies, skies with puffy white clouds, rain-filled skies, pink, orange and purple skies at sunrise and sunset, and dark starry skies at night, or moonlit skies with no stars.
Wish for a pilot: may you always fly in clear skies.
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There is only one sky/heaven, so a plural actually makes no sense. However, there seems to be a kind of perverseness to the human spirit such that it constantly craves more - for example, if one white elephant is good, then a cubic parsec of them would be even better. So, eventually people got tired of having only one sky, and so they started to talk of more than one sky, even though this makes
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Thank you for the answer,
According to the answer, having a squall could be having the different skies.
According to the answer, having a squall could be having the different skies.
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