Is "handwriting" countable or uncountable? [closed]
Which do I say?You have good handwriting.orYou have a good handwriting.
View Articlethree foods & three pieces of food
as far as I know:In the UK "an item of fruit" can be replaced with "a fruit".In the USA "an item of fruit" can be replaced with "a piece of fruit".For example:(1a)John ate three fruits: two apples and...
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If it's “double” why is it singular?
A double number is two identical numbers, e.g. 007 (double O seven)A double chin is someone who appears to have two chinsA double feature is a program showing two feature-length moviesA double D is a...
View ArticleWhy the "soap" here is singular?
I'm learning TOEFL recently, and today I stumbled on this sentence from TPO 47:There was a town that passed a law that banned the sale of a certain kind of soap. There was an ingredient in this soap...
View Article"food vs foods" and "clothing vs clothes"?
There are two pair sentences about products in Japan, as follows.Which one, each, is better or (more) correct?And why?food vs foods1a) More than 60% of food consumed in Japan is imported from...
View ArticleHow can a noun be countable and uncountable at the same time?
How can a noun be countable and uncountable at the same time?For example 'shock'.You can get a shock.I'm suffering from __ shock.
View ArticleHow many percent/percents?
I just learned that the plural form of "percent" is percents, so can we sayhow many percents of apples are there in a lot?instead of "how many percent of apples are there in a lot? Thank you.
View ArticleWord count with contraction such as Let's [closed]
In various situations it is desired to count the number of words in a statement. For example, in dictation practice for learning to type.So in a phrase such as "Let's go Brandon" how would the...
View ArticleIs it less funds or fewer funds?
As far as I know, countable nouns are used with 'few' and 'fewer,' whereas uncountable ones go with 'little' and 'less.' However, I encountered these examples:Reduced saving means less funds for...
View ArticleOne of them is [species] Can I put a plural form there?
My grammar book says that you can say "the dog," "a dog" and "dogs" to refer dogs.This book says "dogs" is the most casual and common way of saying that among the three.So, I wanted to say like...
View ArticleCan we connect two of the same plural nouns with a preposition?
Are these examples correct?Villages after villages were destroyed by terrorists.City after city was set on fire.Pages after pages were reviewed multiple times.
View ArticleWhat's the difference between "build a rapport" and "build rapport"?
I had a look on the Internet and came across both "build a rapport" (eg. I enjoy building a rapport with customers) and "build rapport" (eg. I enjoy building rapport with customers). It seems to me...
View ArticleThe usage of 'how much'?
I typed in the following sentence in Grammarly and it keeps telling me that I had a problem with the subject-verb agreement:How much of each tea makes up the mixed tea is not known. (My incorrect...
View ArticleIs it "tiny amount" or "tiny amounts"?
Can we use tiny amounts of something? Or are we have to use only in singular form, such as "tiny amount of any liquid"?I've seen people use small amounts and/or a small amount of something, but I can't...
View ArticleCommon noun and article, determiners
Should we use articles and determiners before a singular-count common noun all the time? Are there exceptions?For example:A teacher plays an important role.but why fish lives in water?
View ArticleMood: countable or uncountable
Some dictionaries, such as Cambridge dictionary, show that mood is a countable noun.The drink had put him in an amiable mood.Other dictionaries, such as Macmillan dictionary, show that mood can be...
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A new type of drugs or a new type of drug
In the grammar textbook I've been reading, there is a class of partitive constructions called 'Partition in respect of quality' with an example as below:a new kind of computer→ new kinds of...
View ArticleUsing "fashion" countably vs. uncountably: "in (a) timely/similar/dramatic...
I have always thought fashion is countable when used to signify a particular manner (e.g., I will get that done in a timely fashion), but I just encountered these sentences in the Oxford Dictionaries...
View Articleturn their ambition/ambitions into reality/a reality
Since 'ambition' and 'reality' can be either countable or uncountable, do I have to use them both countably like Sentence 1 or I can use one of them countably while the other one uncountably like...
View ArticleSo, the sentence "I read book" is wrong, isn't it?
Found this information on the internetUncount nounsYou cannot say a/an with an uncount noun. You cannot put a number in front of an uncount noun. (You cannot make an uncount noun plural.) You use an...
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