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Believer Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
using an uncountable after a 'be' verb
Hi,
I have an uneasy feeling about using an uncountable noun after a 'be' verb like 'is'. Can you help me?
It is furniture.-- It seems grammatically correct but not so well-understood in terms of what it is trying to say.
How about this?
There is furniture. -- Doesn't look like what we normally write as.
It is slang. -- When used in reference to a word, this doesn't seem correct. The word 'slang' as far as I know entails a group of words that has certain characteristics,
I have an uneasy feeling about using an uncountable noun after a 'be' verb like 'is'. Can you help me?
It is furniture.-- It seems grammatically correct but not so well-understood in terms of what it is trying to say.
How about this?
There is furniture. -- Doesn't look like what we normally write as.
It is slang. -- When used in reference to a word, this doesn't seem correct. The word 'slang' as far as I know entails a group of words that has certain characteristics,
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Hi, I have an uneasy feeling about using an uncountable noun after a 'be' verb like 'is'. Can you help me? -- It seems grammatically correct but not so well-understood in terms of what it is trying to say.
- Hi, I have an uneasy feeling about using an uncountable noun after a 'be' verb like 'is'.
- Can you help me?
- -- It seems grammatically correct but not so well-understood in terms of what it is trying to say.
- How about this?
- There is furniture.
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Hi,
I have an uneasy feeling about using an uncountable noun after a 'be' verb like 'is'. Can you help me?
It is furniture.-- It seems grammatically correct but not so well-understood in terms of what it is trying to say.
How about this?
There is furnitur
I have an uneasy feeling about using an uncountable noun after a 'be' verb like 'is'. Can you help me?
It is furniture.-- It seems grammatically correct but not so well-understood in terms of what it is trying to say.
How about this?
There is furnitur
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I have an uneasy feeling about using an uncountable noun after a 'be' verb like 'is'.There is no rational reason why you should have an uneasy feeling about that. Get over it!
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