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Count nouns have a plural form and a singular form. So you can say, “I like that song” or “I like those songs.” You can say, “one molecule” or “two molecules.” ...
Count Nouns. Nouns fall into two basic lexical classes: count nouns and mass (noncount) nouns. As the name implies count nouns are nouns which can be counted. Mass nouns cannot be counted: 20. one ...
‘Pease,’ a non-count noun, came before the singular ‘pea.’ | Maryna Terletska/GettyImages. English speakers distinguish between count nouns and non-count ones: We count two chairs, for ...
So “song” is a count noun. You cannot, however, have two or three musics. So that’s a mass noun. The conventional wisdom on less and fewer, then, says you have fewer songs and less music.
Nouns that can form plurals are called "count nouns." Mail , historically, is what is known as a "mass noun" — a noun that can't be enumerated and thus resists pluralization, much like mud and ...
Another way is that non-count nouns take “much” and countable nouns take “many”: much information, much sushi, much money; many people, many moose, many light bulbs. Ah, well.
This question hinges on whether “tax” is a mass (uncountable) noun, such as “insurance,” or a count noun that can be enumerated, ...
But many people use "blog", the count noun, to mean a post. For them, this blog is called "Check out this blog," not "Johnson." We sometimes peeve against peevology here on Johnson, yet this usage ...