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Liveinjapan Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Some document or some documents

0Hi, everyone. When someone is at his desk reading a piece of paper, which should I say 'reading some document' or 'some documents'?02br
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00If the documents are 3 pieces of paper, do I need to say 'some documents' not 'some document'? Is the word 'document' really countable?02br
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0Since 'document' is a countable noun, you need to pluralise it when referring to more than one piece of paper.0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00When someone is at his desk reading a piece of paper, which should I say 'reading some document' or 'some documents'? 02font00A 'document' refers to written material that has at least some importance. It's often in the form of a record, so that we can also use 'document' as a verb meaning to record something, eg0
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0After reading Clive's post, I realise that I have to amend mine: a document 01i00can 02i00be a set of papers and isn't necessarily one paper only.0-
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0Thaks! Clive, and Conchita. So, 02br
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01i00She is holding a set of papers which is stapled together and has important information.02i02br
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00This sentence could be rewritten like this:02br
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00She's holding some document. / She's holding a document.02br
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00In general, you couldn't say '
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0Hi again,02br
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01i01font00She is holding a set of papers which is stapled together and has important information.02font02i02br
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01font00This sentence could be rewritten like this:02font02br
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01font00She's holdi
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0Thank you Clive.02br
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00It's really helpful.05002br
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0Another related question is this:02br
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01i00two pieces of paper 02i00I have no doubt it's correct.02br
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01i00a set of papers02i00 Sould the word 'paper' be plural?　Or Should I say 'a set of paper items' like that?02br
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00Thanks.02br
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0Hi,02br
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01font00Another related question is this:02font02br
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01font01i00two pieces of paper 02i00I have no doubt it's correct.02font00 Yes,02br
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01font01i00a set of papers02i00
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0Seeing all the posts by Cilve and Conchita, I understand this question almost perfectly. Thank you very much.02br
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