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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
why no article for countable nouns?
Hi,
Please tell me why the article wouldn't be necessary for the cases below.
They would have been horrified to hear a proposal that it would replace synagogue and Temple.
Please tell me why the article wouldn't be necessary for the cases below.
They would have been horrified to hear a proposal that it would replace synagogue and Temple.
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I probably need more context. What's 'it'? Otherwise, synagogue and temple would probably be used just as we use church in ' I've been to church ' or ' You cannot replace church with private prayer ', where church is an uncountable conceptual experience.
- I probably need more context.
- What's 'it'?
- Otherwise, synagogue and temple would probably be used just as we use church in ' I've been to church ' or ' You cannot replace church with private prayer ', where church is an uncountable conceptual experience.
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I probably need more context. What's 'it'? Otherwise, synagogue and temple would probably be used just as we use church in 'I've been to church' or 'You cannot replace church with private prayer', where church is an uncountable conceptual experience.
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Thank you.
Can I do this then?
They would have been horrified to hear a proposal that the parent would replace teacher and psychologist.
In a typical dictionary, the words 'synagogue' and 'temple' would be countable and we wouldn't see them as uncountable nouns, but, as Mr. M. seemed to have said, those words can be turned countable if we think of them in t
Can I do this then?
They would have been horrified to hear a proposal that the parent would replace teacher and psychologist.
In a typical dictionary, the words 'synagogue' and 'temple' would be countable and we wouldn't see them as uncountable nouns, but, as Mr. M. seemed to have said, those words can be turned countable if we think of them in t
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Turned uncountable.
Yes, some words are more labile (change from count to non-count and vice versa) more happily and readily than others. I think your more recent sentence needs the (at the very least, for the sake of consistency):
a proposal that the parent would replace the teacher and the psychologist.
It is sometimes
Yes, some words are more labile (change from count to non-count and vice versa) more happily and readily than others. I think your more recent sentence needs the (at the very least, for the sake of consistency):
a proposal that the parent would replace the teacher and the psychologist.
It is sometimes
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