| 21. | The " universal packager " likewise describes how mass nouns are understood when they are used as countable nouns.
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| 22. | Anonymous ( used as a mass noun ) is a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities.
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| 23. | Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns.
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| 24. | There is often confusion about the two different concepts of " collective noun " and " mass noun ".
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| 25. | "But until today's article in the Globe I had never heard the word used as anything but a mass noun.
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| 26. | Khmer nouns are divided into two groups : mass nouns, those which take classifiers, and specific nouns, which do not.
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| 27. | These are required for counting in the case of mass nouns, and some can also be used with count nouns.
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| 28. | Mass nouns don't take the definite article " unless " one is trying to make some specific statement about it.
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| 29. | However, some Russian mass nouns have developed a distinct partitive case, also referred to as the " second genitive case ".
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| 30. | The word " of " is used in ( 3 ) to mark the mass noun water is partitioned into gallons.
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