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	What is a mass noun?
		A mass noun is a noun whose referents are not thought of as separate entities.
		Some nouns may permit treatment as either count or mass nouns.
		In English, salad may be treated as either a count or mass noun, as evidenced by the acceptability of the following expressions:
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAMassNoun.htm (123 words)

	What is a Noun?
		In this sentence the possessive noun "squirrels"' is used to modify the noun "nest" and the noun phrase "the squirrels' nest" is the object of the infinitive phrase "to locate."
		A concrete noun is the opposite of a abstract noun.
		A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html (1986 words)

	Nouns
		A Noun Phrase, frequently a noun accompanied by modifiers, is a group of related words acting as a noun: the oil depletion allowance; the abnormal, hideously enlarged nose.
		Abstract nouns are sometimes troublesome for non-native writers because they can appear with determiners or without: "Peace settled over the countryside." "The skirmish disrupted the peace that had settled over the countryside." See the section on Plurals for additional help with collective nouns, words that can be singular or plural, depending on context.
		Nouns in the subject and object role are identical in form; nouns that show the possessive, however, take a different form.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/nouns.htm (994 words)

	Count noun
		A count noun is a noun which is itself counted, or the units which are used to count it.
		This differs from a mass noun in that a count noun is countable, whereas a mass noun refers to an uncounted group of objects (e.g., a corporation).
		Read the article on mass nouns for examples of how count and mass nouns may be distinguished in English grammar.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Count_noun.html (699 words)

	What is a Noun?
		A common noun is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense -- usually, you should write it with a capital letter only when it begins a sentence.
		A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names anything (or anyone) that you can count.
		A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
	www.arts.uottawa.ca /writcent/hypergrammar/nouns.html (1986 words)

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		Note that the lack of a distinct plural form is not a sufficient criterion by itself to determine that a noun is a mass noun.
		Noun phrases that are found in the portions of the texts dealing with the description of destinations and sights of interest are generally more heavily modified compared to those found in sections giving additional practical information.
		Likewise, the noun phrases whose subject matter is most closely related to the description of sights of interest typically have complex types of modification, especially in the form of clausal postmodifiers.
	www.lycos.com /info/noun.html (490 words)

	Noun - Wikinfo
		A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality.
		A mass noun is a type of common noun that represents a substance not easily quantified by a number.
		Mass nouns do not require limiting modifiers ("an", "two", "several", "many", etc.) and are not normally pluralized.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=noun (668 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for noun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		a noun formed by inflection of a verb and partly sharing its constructions, such as smoking in smoking is forbidden.
		MASS NOUN Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language...
		A countable noun (also count noun, unit noun) can be both singular and plural, whether regular in form (book/books, fox/foxes) or irregular (child/children, sheep/sheep).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=noun&StartAt=11 (691 words)

	For An Answer: Christian Apologetics - Theos as a Count Noun
		Nouns, for example, may be classified as abstract or concrete, singular or plural, "mass" or "count." A typical definition of the latter is:
		A mass noun denotes something uncountable or abstract, a substance like sugar or iron, or a concept such as integrity or courage; mass nouns usually do not have plurals, and the determiners used with them are typically some and any, never a or an or numbers.
		Al Kidd writes: "In our determining whether a noun has a count sense or a noncount sense, we find that it is often necessary to analyze the context of the noun because there may not be present with the noun any attributive modification for it" (Kidd in Stafford, p.
	www.forananswer.org /Top_JW/Theos_CountNoun.htm (5371 words)

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		For instance, the main criteria for mass terms is that the concepts be perceived as being inherently unbounded.
		The animal grinding rule is a special case for when count nouns that refer to animals are used as mass nouns to refer to the animal used as food.
		Gil99] generalizes this and similar cases to a rule that converts a count noun usage for any object to a mass noun usage referring to an aggregate part of the object (e.g., meat in the case of the animal grinding rule).
	www.cs.nmsu.edu /~tomohara/mass-count-inference/node11.html (537 words)

	Mass confusion you can count on \| csmonitor.com
		The mass vs. count distinction is less clear for newer terms whose usage is somewhat in flux.
		The mass vs. count distinction matters in terms of articles ("an e-mail" or not), and the often prickly distinction between "less" and "fewer." "Less" goes with mass nouns, "fewer" with count nouns.
		Coffee is a mass noun in that context.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1105/p18s03-hfes.htm (584 words)

	20th WCP: The Structure of Chinese Language and Ontological Insights: A Collective-Noun Hypothesis*
		For, when they stand alone, collective nouns and mass nouns are not supposed to stand for countable individuals but for a whole, either a collection-whole or a mass-whole.
		In English, a count noun can be directly preceded by (cardinal) numerals or indefinite articles 'a' or 'an', whereas a mass noun cannot be directly preceded by numerals or indefinite articles.
		For the model directly regards a noun as denoting a collection-whole of individual things and takes the case of the mass noun to be a special case: it denotes a collection of one single inseparable and interpenetrating stuff.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Comp/CompMou.htm (4206 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Deciding whether the headword in a phrase should be lexicalized as a mass noun is not as straightforward as it might seem.
		For example, ``anthrax'' will be a mass noun when referring to the bacteria, but it will be a count noun when referring to the resulting skin lesions (e.g., ``anthraces'').
		This shows that `luggage' is correctly given as a mass noun, and `table' is correctly pluralized for the suggestions; however, `desk' is incorrectly left singular.
	www.cs.nmsu.edu /~tomohara/mass-count-inference/node1.html (607 words)

	Nouns
		Count nouns can be accompanied by the indefinite article, and they have a plural form, whereas mass nouns have neither of these properties.
		Although the distinction between count and mass nouns is generally clear-cut, under special circumstances, what are ordinarily mass nouns in English can be used as count nouns---for instance, when it is possible to impose an interpretation of a kind of X or a salient quantity of X on the mass noun.
		Masculine nouns lose their final -s in the vocative, and other nouns remained unchanged, but for all nouns, the article is obligatorily absent in the vocative, as shown in (22).
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~beatrice/syntax-textbook/box-nouns.html (1694 words)

	Supporting English Acquisition
		Sometimes, a non-count noun is referred to as a "mass" noun.
		The term "mass" means something taken as a whole or something that is not divided into parts.
		Some nouns that are non-count in some contexts can be legitimately used as count nouns in other contexts.
	www.rit.edu /~seawww/articles-nouns/an03count.html (224 words)

	For an Answer: Christian Apologetics Hommel-Kevin Q only Count Nouns
		A qualitative noun is one that lays stress on the nature, character, or qualities of the noun, rather than upon it's membership in a class (indefinite) or identity (definite).
		Both of these nouns express the qualities of the particular noun when the noun is predicated of a person or thing.
		Nouns that predicate nature or qualities are not countable in their contexts.
	www.forananswer.org /Mars_Jw/K-RH.Qnouns.htm (4699 words)

	Bambooweb: Mass noun
		In English, a mass noun is a type of noun that has a singular, but no plural form.
		A "laundry" as a count noun is an establishment which washes clothes, also known as a laundrette.
		A mass noun can be preceded by a count noun, as in "ten pieces of furniture" or "a gallon of water".
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/m/a/Mass_noun.html (362 words)

	New Oxford Dictionary of English Guidelines
		Nouns and senses of nouns may be labelled in the dictionary as being either [MASS NOUN] or [COUNT NOUN].
		Because these types of nouns follow regular rules for forming plurals in particular contexts, the dictionary does not generally indicate that a plural may be allowed.
		When a noun falls into one of these categories, it means that a plural is usually allowed, though each individual case will be judged on its merits.
	jono.nebagram.co.uk /node.html (480 words)

	no1: introduction to nouns
		Like English, nouns in French may be categorized as common or proper, count or mass, singular or plural.
		In contrast, a mass noun refers to an entity as an uncountable unit.
		All nouns in French and English are marked for number, that is, for singular (one) or plural (more than one).
	www.laits.utexas.edu /tex/gr/no1.html (452 words)

	Hartley's Second Response To Stafford
		It simply states Jesus became "flesh" or "human." The fact that the noun is mass, the construction is Colwell's, and that it is discourse related chiastically to John 1:1c, all converge to indicate a purely qualitative semantic to both nouns ("God" and "flesh").
		How the use of a count noun in 1:1c and a mass noun in 1:14 supports his view of a purely qualitative classification for the count noun in 1:1c is not stated, but assumed.
		To put a lexically qualitative noun (mass) in the Colwell construction is an odd phenomenon to begin with especially when considering that there would be no difference in meaning in 1:14 if the PN were to be placed on the post-copulative side of the sentence.
	www.jude3.net /hartley_second_response.htm (11691 words)

	Leslie Elliott, Helen Cartwright, Mass Nouns, and Individuation
		However, the individuating nature of mass nouns is not simply found in measurements of stuff, according to Cartwright; she thus introduces the term "quantity" and distinguishes this sense of quantity from mere amounts.
		Concerning mass nouns in particular, those prefaced with 'ounce', 'cup', or 'piece' of the gold are part-whole partitives, while those simply referring to an ounce of gold are non-part-whole partitives.
		To bring Cartwright's remarks concerning the syntactical nature of mass nouns in line with her general aim of affirming the individuating nature of mass nouns, then: Cartwright began by affirming the individuating nature of mass nouns through her notion of quantity.
	www.carleton.ca /philosophy/cusjp/v16/n1/elliott.html (4945 words)

	Minyeva - Grammar
		Discrete nouns are nouns that are viewed as separable units; mass nouns are nouns that are viewed as a single mass.
		In the Minyeva dictionary, mass nouns are marked as "n.m" and discrete nouns are marked as "n.d".
		Converting a mass noun to a discrete noun means something like "a unit of X" or "a thing of X".
	minyeva.alkaline.org /grammar.htm (3237 words)

	Mass noun
		In English, a mass noun has no plural form, only singular.
		A mass noun can be preceded by a count noun: for example "10 pieces of furniture".
		The word "data" is often used as a mass noun, especially by people who work with computers, but this usage is still controversial.
	www.fact-index.com /m/ma/mass_noun.html (313 words)

	mass noun definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		mass noun definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		Search for "mass noun" in all of MSN Encarta
		usually uncountable noun: a noun representing something that cannot be counted, e.g.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861693416/mass_noun.html (93 words)

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		The word data is often used as a mass noun, especially by people who work with computers.
		In formal writing it typically retains its original grammatical role as the plural of "datum", but treating it as a mass noun is becoming increasingly popular.
		Some other mass nouns have their origins as plural count nouns: spaghetti in Italian is the plural of spaghetto, but in English it has become firmly established as a mass noun, making both "I want five spaghetti" and "I want a spaghetti" grammatically incorrect.
	www.lycos.com /info/noun--english.html (481 words)

	Definition of Mass noun
		A "laundry" as a count noun is an establishment which washes clothes, also known as a laundromat or laundrette.
		The word "data" is often used as a mass noun, especially by people who work with computers.
		For example count forms are used for fish not intended for food while mass nouns are used for fish one would eat.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Mass_noun (472 words)

	noun - Webled.com
		[ proper noun, the common noun, the concrete noun, the abstract noun, ]...
		[ A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a ]...
		[ A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a ]...
	www.webled.com /noun.htm (401 words)

	The Noun
		A common noun is a name given to any one of a class of objects (tulip, city, face, movie, girl, clue, lake, cookie).
		A mass noun is the name of a non-countable collection (time).
		A proper noun is the official title of a specific object; it is therefore always capitalized (Dionysus, Bela Lugosi, Atlantic Ocean, Mother goose).
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Grammar/English_Grammar/The_Noun/the_noun.html (386 words)

	EEI Communications - EEI Press
		In the singular, a countable noun cannot be used without a determiner or a possessive: a book, one book, my book, that book, John's book, but not book alone.
		An uncountable noun (also non-count noun, mass noun) has no plural forms, takes only a singular verb, and can occur without a determiner: furniture as in The furniture has arrived is uncountable, but chair and table as in They bought some chairs and a table are countable.
		Maybe some day the count noun usage will become acceptable in formal writing (as the use of data as a mass noun rather than a plural has, at least in some style manuals), but that day hasn't come yet.
	www.eeicom.com /eye/utw/97jan.html (777 words)

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