Transitive or intransitive; Countable or uncountable – what does it all mean?? – Cambridge Dictionary About words blog (Feb 01, 2017)

Transitive or intransitive; Countable or uncountable – what does it all mean?? – Cambridge Dictionary About words blog (Feb 01, 2017)

It’s all very well being told that we use many in front of countable plural nouns and much before uncountable nouns, but what happens if you don’t know what ‘countable’ and ‘uncountable’ mean? People like me, who write about language, use these terms all the time but why should we assume that our readers know them?. For further reading, visit About words, a blog from Cambridge Dictionary.

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Blog post written by: Liz Walter

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