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Count and non-count nouns

by bkw » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:47 pm
How should I reason to figure out whether a noun is countable or not?


I know that e.g. water is not countable, but should I think: Is this X possible to have many of next to each other in real life?

One pencil, ... but I can also have many pencils, therefore countable?

One furniture, many furnitures next to each other ... also countable?
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by mirfan2 » Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:05 am
Just remember this and you should be fine for the GMAT
Measurements involving money (e.g., dollars, pounds), time (e.g., five years, the fifties), weight (e.g., pounds, kilograms), or volume (e.g., gallons, kilograms) are always singular and take singular verbs.

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