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Is there any sort of indicator that natives unconsciously utilize to assume a particular noun as countable or uncountable?
I looked up some websites to gather information about it but lots of them seem to be quite culture-driven and, you know, there are hundreds of thousands of nouns that I couldn't imagine memorizing all of them. So I want to ask how the native English speakers become distinguishing them without extra thoughts.
Personally I have three perspectives of it.
1. Not that important.
2. Just permeates naturally after reading tons of articles and books. (I personally think this is the fact and the best way)
3. After memorizing tens of hundreds of countable and uncountable nouns, some kind of big picture would be formed in my brain so that I can somehow sort other nouns out whether they are countable or uncountable.
Thank you very much.
I looked up some websites to gather information about it but lots of them seem to be quite culture-driven and, you know, there are hundreds of thousands of nouns that I couldn't imagine memorizing all of them. So I want to ask how the native English speakers become distinguishing them without extra thoughts.
Personally I have three perspectives of it.
1. Not that important.
2. Just permeates naturally after reading tons of articles and books. (I personally think this is the fact and the best way)
3. After memorizing tens of hundreds of countable and uncountable nouns, some kind of big picture would be formed in my brain so that I can somehow sort other nouns out whether they are countable or uncountable.
Thank you very much.