Incorrect grammar on American website
Jul 14, 2022, 5:10 am
#92
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Yes, but you "count your money".
Another example is "furniture". We certainly can count furniture, but we don't say "furnitures". The classification of a noun as a mass noun isn't based on the logic of counting. It's like assigning a gender to nouns in romance languages. There probably is a linguistic reason if you dig far enough back, but it's not a simple as logically classifying things into countable and uncountable categories.
Another example is "furniture". We certainly can count furniture, but we don't say "furnitures". The classification of a noun as a mass noun isn't based on the logic of counting. It's like assigning a gender to nouns in romance languages. There probably is a linguistic reason if you dig far enough back, but it's not a simple as logically classifying things into countable and uncountable categories.
"Countable" and "uncountable" nouns are sometimes referred to as "count" and "mass" nouns. When I say "uncountable", I mean exactly what you mean when you say "mass".
Jul 15, 2022, 9:57 am
#96
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If they were words in the dictionary, perhaps.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deplane (first used in 1923)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enplane (first used 1941)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deplane (first used in 1923)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enplane (first used 1941)
Jul 18, 2022, 2:08 am
#98
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Anyone understand why the sentence in the safety video pertaining to the airplane losing pressure begins with the word "now?" The word just doesn't go there.
Edit: Tried to embed it at the correct start time but failed. Watch from 2:40.
https://youtu.be/LXb28mVZiJo?t=160
Edit: Tried to embed it at the correct start time but failed. Watch from 2:40.
https://youtu.be/LXb28mVZiJo?t=160
Jul 22, 2022, 10:03 pm
#99
Join Date: Sep 2016
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Anyone understand why the sentence in the safety video pertaining to the airplane losing pressure begins with the word "now?" The word just doesn't go there.
Edit: Tried to embed it at the correct start time but failed. Watch from 2:40.
https://youtu.be/LXb28mVZiJo?t=160
Edit: Tried to embed it at the correct start time but failed. Watch from 2:40.
https://youtu.be/LXb28mVZiJo?t=160
used...to introduce an important point or indicate a transition (as of ideas)