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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Text plural?

Hi,

Can we make plural from 'text?' I mean can we use the word "texts" at all?

I heard this sentence: "Those text just don't match". In my dictionnary the word "text" is uncountable so why do we often see someone talking about texts and - the most imporatnt - can we use "texts" in the example above?

Thank you in advance
  

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Hi, Sure, you can count texts. On this Forum this week, I have corrected six texts . Clive

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Hi,

Sure, you can count texts. On this Forum this week, I have corrected six texts.

Clive
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Thank you,

And what about my example? And why is it marked as Uncountable in Oxford dictionnary?
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Hi again,

It can be both countable, eg He edited six texts today

and uncountable eg He edits text all day. He always has a headache.

A sentence like 'Those text just don't match' is clearly speaking about comparing two or more texts. So
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