2015-01-30 Evening: count/noncount nouns

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: “Raise the Issues” p. 79-81 (count and noncount nouns grammar)
Exercise 1
1 C: a person’s body, the body of a car, the body of an essay, a celestial body
  NC: Her hair has a lot of body. (= it’s thick and full), beer and wine can also have “body”
2 C: There were bullet impacts all along the left side of the car. The meteor came down with multiple impacts.
  NC: The change hasn’t had much impact on policy yet.
3 (C): in some sociological/academic contexts, we might talk about different “wisdoms” (= different types)
  NC: She has a lot of wisdom for her age. (this is the most common usage)
4 C: The museum has many preserved animal specimens.
  (NC): The doctor wasn’t able to get much specimen from the blood sample. (academic)
5 (C): In education we often talk about the theory of multiple intelligences. (again, = types of intelligence)
  NC: That job requires a great deal of intelligence. (this is more common)
6 (C): She felt a great reluctance. (can be singular, but (almost) never plural)
  NC: They felt a lot of reluctance to do it. (= People were very reluctant.)
7 (C): There are many harms of excessive drinking. (different types of harm)
  NC: The monster caused no harm. The hurricane brought a lot of harm to the community.
8 (C): We need to make discriminations between things. (= distinguishing between two choices)
  NC: There is a lot of discrimination against minorities in this country.
9 C: There are many different societies in the world.
  NC: You shouldn’t say that in polite society. Society discriminates against people for many reasons.
10 C: There are 50 states in the United States. There are three (main) states of matter.
   (NC: maybe not?)
11 C: I have created many profiles on social media sites.
   (NC: I don’t think so)
12 (C): knowledges = different types of knowledge (academic, like “intelligences” and “wisdoms”)
   NC: She has a lot of knowledge about this topic.
13 C: There were no fatalities.
   NC: Ebola has high fatality. (= the capacity to cause fatalities)
14 C: Her genetics are very good. Everyone in her family lives a very long time.
   NC: I study genetics. Genetics is difficult. Genetics is relatively new.
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exercise 2
1 concerns
2 sciences (= different types)
3 matters
4 lives
5 evil
6 goods (= products)
7 state
8 fatality (= capacity to cause fatalities)
9 material
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singular nouns always have a determiner
Determiners: articles, quantifiers, demonstratives (this/that/these/those), possessives, interrogatives (what/which)
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The things money and cash are countable. (I have 17 dollars in cash.)
The words “money” and “cash” are noncount nouns.
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a piece of hair, a strand of hair
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Homework: (handout) p. 76 (reading) and p. 77 (exercises)