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Mr. Tom Posted 5 years ago
Vocabulary

Unknown as a noun

Hi

Could you please tell me if the use of unknown as a countable noun sounds OK to you?

There were a lot of confusion, a lot of unknowns about the situation.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom There was a lot of confusion, a lot of unknowns about the situation. It's fine with that correction.

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  • Tom There was a lot of confusion, a lot of unknowns about the situation.
  • It's fine with that correction.
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Mr. TomThere was a lot of confusion, a lot of unknowns about the situation.

It's fine with that correction.

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Mr. TomCould you please tell me if the use of unknown as a countable noun

Your question reminds me of an infamous quote by the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld:

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We al

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