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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

three questions asked one next to the other

Hi,

Please help.

1. Which one is right?

Climbing up the mountain.

Climbing the mountain.

Hiking up the mountain.

Hiking the mountain.

2. Are these sentences right?

I am going to help my sister wash the dishes.

I'd like to order two hamburgers and a French fries

Revamping of a classic Christian vocabulary (Why "a" there when vocabulary seems to be uncountable here?)
  

Top answer

Everything is OK. Vocabularies are countable. This is a Christian one.

— Mister Micawber

  • Everything is OK.
  • Vocabularies are countable.
  • This is a Christian one.
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Everything is OK.

Vocabularies are countable. This is a Christian one.
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Thank you.

As to the phrase "Revamping of a classic Christian vocabulary," would you say it is an example of an uncountable noun turned a countable noun? Surely, I don't think we are talking about revamping of a single Christian vocabulary (or word). but instead I think we are talking about revamping a whole collection of words in the language a person uses.
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Vocabulary does not mean a single word in any case; it is a set of words-- or as you say, a collection of words (one collection, two collections). I don't know which came first, the countable or the uncountable.

(This Anon is me in disguise--MM)
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