three chalks
01 i 00 Count and non 02 i 00 - 01 i 00 count nouns 02 i 00 . Simply put, count nouns are those that can be enumerated or counted. Examples include 01 i 00 desk, tree, and chair 02 i 00 . On the other hand, non-count nouns are mass nouns, which do not normally occur in the plural form. They often refer to abstractions and carry a collective meaning. Examples include 01 i 00 love, honesty, luggage 02 i 00 , 00 and 01 i 00 water 02 i 00 . In a broad sense, the terms count and non-count nouns are conceptualized in the same way in English and Chinese. However, differences exist in how individual lexical items are categorized. For example, some items classified as count nouns in Chinese are classified as non-count nouns in English. Specific examples include 01 i 00 furniture, baggage, luggage, mail, bread, and chalk. 02 i 00 Because of this discrepancy, Chinese students may tend to make the following types of errors. 02 br
00 *There are a lot of good furnitures in his house. 02 br
00 *I got two mails today. 02 br
00 *I had two breads today. 02 br
00 *There are 01 b 00 three chalks 02 b 00 on the desk. 02 p
00 A Chinese teacher of English says that we can never say 01 i 01 b 00 one paper, two breads, or 01 span 00 three 02 span 00 02 b 02 i 01 span 01 i 01 b 00 chalks 02 b 02 i 00 , 02 span 01 span 00 because paper, bread and chalk are all uncountable nouns. Can't "chalk" be used as a countable noun? Why did I hear people say "a box of colored chalks"? 02 span 02 p
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0 Yes, it should be a piece/sheet of paper (if you're talking of the support of something written), two loaves of bread. Yet a chalk can also mean the stick you write with (and not the rock), and in that case it's countable. 0-
- 0 Yes, it should be a piece/sheet of paper (if you're talking of the support of something written), two loaves of bread.
- Yet a chalk can also mean the stick you write with (and not the rock), and in that case it's countable.
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00 (a piece of) a chalk-like substance used for writing (especially on blackboards) 02 br
00 Example: 01 i 00 a box of chalks 02 i 02 b
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001 i 00 Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 02 i 02 p
01 p 01 b 01 span 00 chalk noun, verb 02 span 02 b 02 br
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000 A Chinese teacher of English says that we can never say 11 i 11 b 10 one paper, two breads, or 11 font 10 three 12 font 10 12 b 12 i 11 font 11 i 11 b 10 chalks 12 b 12 i 10 , 12 font 10 because paper, bread and chalk are all uncountab
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00 Assuming 'chalk' is almost always used as uncountable, how would you write the phrase 'a box of colored chalks' and the idea behind it. For that matter, how would you write the phrase 'a room full of colored furnitures??' or 'a room full of colored merchandises??' and the same idea behind those phrases. 02 br
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000 According to Cambridge, "furniture" & "merchandise" are 01 b 00 always 02 b 00 uncountable, whereas "chalk" can be both. 02 p
00 0-000 It exists in the plural only in this set expression, 'box of coloured chalks'. 02 p
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