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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Usurping the dicitionary definition
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00 I think Aperisic alluded to this possible way of turning an uncountable noun, furniture, into a countable noun. I think his suggested way was turning it into types like 'sixteen century John Doe III furniture', 'seventeen century John Doe III furniture', 'eighteen century John Doe III furniture; now, I think, you have turned the word 'furnitrue' into different types in different time periods. 02 br
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00 How to use 01 i 00 furniture 02 i 00 in sentences properly is eluding me but my question now is "Furniture consist of large movable things, according to a typical definition (I think), and by turning/making it into various types and putting the article 'a' or 'an' infront of the word, do we still get to think of 01 i 00 furniture 02 i 00 as the word that meant to be consist of large movable 01 b 00 objects/things 02 b 00 and not necessarily mislead a person to think as just 01 u 00 one 02 u 01 b 00 object or thing 02 b 00 ?" 0-
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00 I think Aperisic alluded to this possible way of turning an uncountable noun, furniture, into a countable noun. I think his suggested way was turning it into types like 'sixteen century John Doe III furniture', 'seventeen century John Doe III furniture', 'eighteen century John Doe III furniture; now, I think, you have turned the word 'furnitrue' into different types in different time periods. 02 br
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00 How to use 01 i 00 furniture 02 i 00 in sentences properly is eluding me but my question now is "Furniture consist of large movable things, according to a typical definition (I think), and by turning/making it into various types and putting the article 'a' or 'an' infront of the word, do we still get to think of 01 i 00 furniture 02 i 00 as the word that meant to be consist of large movable 01 b 00 objects/things 02 b 00 and not necessarily mislead a person to think as just 01 u 00 one 02 u 01 b 00 object or thing 02 b 00 ?" 0-
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1 i 01 b 00 'Furniture 02 b 00 01 u 01 b 00 consists 02 b 02 u 00 of large movable things' 02 i 00 ... 0-
- 1 i 01 b 00 'Furniture 02 b 00 01 u 01 b 00 consists 02 b 02 u 00 of large movable things' 02 i 00 ...
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1 i 01 b 00 'Furniture 02 b 00 01 u 01 b 00 consists 02 b 02 u 00 of large movable things' 02 i 00 ... and I think the answer to your question is 'yes'-- but could you produce a sample sentence? 0-
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0 01 i 00 furniture 02 i 00 is not countable, and there's no way to make it so, except in the most theoretical way, which is not at all practical for real communication. Nobody uses 01 i 00 a furniture, a nice furniture, an old furniture, a nineteenth century furniture, a heavy furniture, 02 i 00 or any such expression whatsoever. They are all essentially im
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0 Thank you, CalifJim. Would you mind telling me if the following, which eem to be examples given by Aperisic, is hovering in the theoretical realm and not touching the reality of things? 02 br
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00 I have 01 b 01 u 00 furnitures 02 u 00 02 b 00 in my house such as Louis XV, Louis XVI and Louis XVII furniture. 02 br
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00 I have 01 b 01 u 00 furnitures 02 u 00 02 b 00 in my house such as Louis XV, Louis XVI and Louis XVII furniture. 02 br
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0 I'm not CalifJim, but perhaps you don't mind. 01 blockquote
01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 Thank you, CalifJim. Would you mind telling me if the following, which eem to be examples given by Aperisic, is hovering in the theoretical realm and not touching the reality of things? 12 br
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0 The examples using 01 i 00 furniture 01 b 00 s 02 b 02 i 00 are all wrong. 05 0 02 br
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