However, some abstract phenomena like " fun " and " hope " have properties which make it difficult to refer to them with a count noun.
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*There are various different reason this might happen, simple irregular plurals, like fish / fish and sheep / sheep, or mass nouns versus count nouns, like oats.
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On such accounts, count nouns should then be characterized as " non-cumulative " nouns : this characterization correctly groups " committee " together with the count nouns.
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The word can thus be said to have a " double meaning ", which partly depends on whether it is used as a count noun or uncountably.
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On such accounts, count nouns should then be characterized as " non-cumulative " nouns : this characterization correctly groups " committee " together with the count nouns.
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If the item was a mass noun, you wouldn't usually use a plural; if it's a count noun ( like " bees " ), then you would.
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The individual / mass distinction is similar to the distinction between mass nouns and count nouns, but things that are normally counted can be considered as a mass.
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By adding the morpheme ro to the root of a mass noun or verb in Wanano, it changes into a count noun ( Stenzel, 2004, 139 ).
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The dictionaries I looked at were mute about whether " destruction " can be a count noun .-- talk ) 01 : 30, 6 June 2008 ( UTC)
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Some uncountable nouns can be alternatively used as count nouns when meaning " a type of ", and the plural means " more than one type of ".
