What a tiger is
Are all these sentences correct:
1) Do you know what rhyme is?
2) Do you know what a rhyme is?
3) Do you know what tiger is?
4) Do you know what a tiger is?
Maybe in '1' and '3' we need quotation marks.
'1' sounds fine to me, but not '3'. Maybe it is because everybody is supposed to know what a tiger is!
Gratefully,
Navi.
Top answer
, bee and tree . 'tiger', on the other hand, has no abstract, uncountable meaning. The only exception I can think of is the case where the reference is to tiger meat, forming an analogy thus: Do you know what chicken is?
- , bee and tree .
- 'tiger', on the other hand, has no abstract, uncountable meaning.
- The only exception I can think of is the case where the reference is to tiger meat, forming an analogy thus: Do you know what chicken is?
- Yes.
- Very tasty.
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'rhyme' can be considered either the abstract (and therefore uncountable) concept of rhyming and making rhymes or a particular example — a specific rhyme, e.g., bee and tree. 'tiger', on the other hand, has no abstract, uncountable meaning. The only exception I can think of is the case where the reference is to tiger meat, forming an analogy thus:
Do you know what chick
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