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TeacherJapan Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Superiority used in a countable noun?

I've found the following sentence in a book.

Our strong urge to communicate with each other gave the earliest humans a superiority over other ape families.

Is it possible to use "superiority" as a countable noun?
  

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teacherJapan Is it possible to use "superiority" as a countable noun? It seems so. I don't find its use grating.

— Mister Micawber

  • teacherJapan Is it possible to use "superiority" as a countable noun?
  • It seems so.
  • I don't find its use grating.
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teacherJapanIs it possible to use "superiority" as a countable noun?
It seems so. I don't find its use grating.
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I see! Nouns are very tricky!
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teacherJapan I see! Nouns are very tricky!
Yes, but sometimes you can see through the trick. Here "superiority" is used in the sense of "advantage", which is a countable noun.

CJ
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Ah!!! Now I get it :-) I wish I could see noins as you see them. Thank you very much for letting me see what you see, CJ:-)
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Sorry?? nouns (?noins)
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