Countable / Uncountable

Are countable or uncountable noums:

advert
advice
sun
tennis

Why?

Thanks, Helena.

[Tdol]

advert - countable
advice - uncountable
sun - countable
tennis - uncountable

Adverts are easy to count- open a newspaper and doit. Advertising, however, is not. There is onlyone sun,but there could be more,so it is countable. Tennis, like most sports is uncountable- you can count the games. Advice is uncountable in English, though can be plural in many languages, so it's hard to give a reason for this one.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by tdol

advert - countable
advice - uncountable
sun - countable
tennis - uncountable

Adverts are easy to count- open a newspaper and doit. Advertising, however, is not. There is onlyone sun,but there could be more,so it is countable. Tennis, like most sports is uncountable- you can count the games. Advice is uncountable in English, though can be plural in many languages, so it's hard to give a reason for this one.

When advice is used for "communicated information", it can be plural in English. This is very rare, however. :wink:

[Tdol]

The is an example of 'information' used in the plural in Gulliver's Travels, but that is the only one I have found.

[MikeNewYork]

Originally Posted by tdol

The is an example of 'information' used in the plural in Gulliver's Travels, but that is the only one I have found.

My unabridged Webster's lists a plural for "information", but no examples. :?