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Countable / Uncountable
Are countable or uncountable noums:
advert
advice
sun
tennis
Why?
Thanks, Helena.
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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.
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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:
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The is an example of 'information' used in the plural in Gulliver's Travels, but that is the only one I have found.
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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. :?
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