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Believer Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

What is the difference?

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01i00Blocking is illegal personal contact that/which impedes the progress of an opponent.02i02br
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01i00Blocking is a very wrong personal contact which/that impedes the progress of an opponent. 02i0-
  

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0The second is not at all natural. 02br 02br 00It sounds like molestation. 0-

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0The second is not at all natural. 02br
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00It sounds like molestation. In sporting events, you don't really talk about "wrong," you talk about allowed or not allowed, legal or illegal.0-
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0Thank you, GG.02br
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00I think you can guess that what I am trying to do is experiment (play??) with some sentences to get a sense of what is happening -- why are there articles in front of uncountable nouns?02br
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00I found these and I think some of these might have been used by me to pose one or two questions before.02br
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00why are there articles in front of uncountable nouns?12blockquote
10I think you mean more specifically the articles 01i00a / an02i00. These imply countability, so they seem incompatible with uncountable nouns. (The same is not true of the article 01i00the02i00.)02br
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