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[whl626]

" I also mind that people want to stick their nose in other people's personal life. "

Right after leaving this forum, I stumbled onto this sentence somewhere.

Since people is used, do you think ' noses ' should be used instead of its singular form ?

I myself see it the way that since it is not the ' nose ' the person talked about, so leaves it in singular form, correct ? After all stick one's nose is a slang I guess

[RonBee]

" I also mind that people want to stick their nose in other people's personal life. "

Right after leaving this forum, I stumbled onto this sentence somewhere.

Since people is used, do you think ' noses ' should be used instead of its singular form ?

I myself see it the way that since it is not the ' nose ' the person talked about, so leaves it in singular form, correct ? After all stick one's nose is a slang I guess

I agree with your first opinion. It should be their noses.

:)

[lucyarliwu]

The "it" in the sentence in question refers to a process or an action or a series of actions or a habit. (Take your pick. :wink: )
:)

That's right, Ron, you just speak out what I want to say about 'it'. :)
And as for 'love' used in my proceding line, I guess this word is pretty strong as you said and I will try not to overuse it next time.


Lucy wu in China

[RonBee]

The "it" in the sentence in question refers to a process or an action or a series of actions or a habit. (Take your pick. :wink: )
:)

That's right, Ron, you just speak out what I want to say about 'it'. :)
And as for 'love' used in my proceding line, I guess this word is pretty strong as you said and I will try not to overuse it next time.


Lucy wu in China

You're doing just fine.

:D

[Firelord]

spend looks like to be used for money, time....those uncountable thing
can we use it,spend, for others? like times, ...

[Tdol]

We don't use 'spend' with 'times' very much- we use it with the uncoutable form when we think of 'time' as a commodity like money.

[RonBee]

You can spend time with somebody or spend time doing something, but "spend times" is unlikely.

:)

[Smasher]

Ooops ! sorry guyz i didn't get ur points so can u tell me once again

I have read that we use HOW MANY for Countable things en HOW MUCH for Uncountable things .... is it correct????

Smasher.

[Tdol]

Hi, smasher, and welcome. You are right. Here the question is about how much money (uncountable).

[ARNAUD]

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What's the difference?

We use much for uncountable noun and we use many for countable noun like for example; pen, pencil...