They are both countable nouns. Shape and size don't affect whether you can count something. ;-)
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They are both countable nouns. Shape and size don't affect whether you can count something. ;-)
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My English teacher told us....(Tdol is right, of course.)
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Hello Tdol, Thank You its really nice ?
Well Now i wanna ask you another question is that what do you think paper is countable noun or uncountable noun and when it becomes page then? and another question is that what about our hair is countable or uncountable my english teacher told us that when hair has definite shape and size then it become countable noun but when they dont have shape then its uncountable.? another question is that what about stars thay are countable or uncountable? our teacher told us that stars are countable but they are countless. so plz help me you are very great person /
Farhaj.
And another thing is that if u found any kind of grammar mistake or any suggestion related to me then plz plz plz tell me Okay bye take care urself.
Paper is countable. Page is countable. Hair is countable. (True, it is easier to count the hairs on your head after you have cut them off of your head.)
I am not sure I understand your English teacher's comments. (I suggest that you refer her to this website.) Whatever its shape, hair is hair. True, you would not, for example, say a person has red hairs but that a person has red hair. But that person's red hair is still countable. ;-)
Stars are indeed countable. Saying that they are countless simply means that there are so many that we could never count them all. They are so numerous that we could never put a number to how many there are.
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Originally Posted by Farhaj
Hello, Tdol! hank you! That was really nice.(I don't know if I'd say Tdol is great, but he's good. ;-) )
Now I want to ask you another question. Do ypu think paper is a countable or uncountable noun? And what about page?
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The best way to learn English is to read or to as much English as you can.
If you go to www.bbc.co.uk , listen and repeat try it
Both paper and page are countable nouns.
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Originally Posted by Red5
Nope
We can say "I'm a Chinese" as well as "I am Chinese".
And "the Indian" and "Indian" are all acceptable, if you want to point out a special Indian, you can use article "the" to specilize.
Hmm maybe you can say 'I'm a Chinese', but it doesn't sound right to me. I've been studying English by memorizing random sentences, and one I remember is "I'm a Chinese government official."
I once asked the same question to an ESL teacher years ago, and he said "You either go 'I'm Korean' or 'I'm a Korean person'. Now, to me, even 'I'm a Korean person' sounds weird, although there's no grammatical flaw. He was probably stretching a bit to explain the difference.
What's this? Is this English?