Timeline for Uncountable nouns and pronouns
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| Jun 9, 2021 at 0:11 | comment | added | 02l4 | Thank you very much. | |
| May 20, 2021 at 18:52 | comment | added | Dronz | @02l4 It's not so much the kind of words, as it is whether you are talking about them as one thing, or as separate things. "News and information" is often referred to as a category. Other examples: "Fish and chips makes a tasty lunch." "The stars and stripes is a nice flag," but "The stars and stripes represent different things." One test you can try, is if the sentence could be broken into sentences about each thing, would the meaning change, or not. If it would, then it's probably a collective singular group being referred to. If not, then they're being talked about as plural things. | |
| May 20, 2021 at 7:50 | comment | added | 02l4 | Thank you for answering my questions. I'd like to ask you further question. In no.2, news and information can be reffered to as one collective category. What kind of words that could be categorized as one? Do you have any examples? | |
| May 15, 2021 at 15:10 | history | answered | Dronz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |