I read here
>http://www.englishpage.com/articles/a-vs-an.htm
that:
>In English, some nouns are considered uncountable such as: information, air, advice, salt and fun. We do not use A(AN) with these uncountable nouns.
So, for example, when I have to ask "can you give-me an advice?", the correct one should be "can you give-me advice?"
Maybe I should've just asked: is "advice" countable? uncountable? both (depending on the situations)?
>>60368765
uncountable
>>60368765
it would just be "can you give me advice"
>>60368829
can you explain why?
also: it should be correct "can you give-me advice", right?
advice is uncountable so you ask for 'some' advice
I don't know english very well, I just use and abuse it until I get tired and want to do it again in the next 5 minutes.
>>60368896
no clue why desu
yes, but it's not written "give-me" it's just "give me"
>>60368921
Oddly enough while uncountable you can still place a value on it, typically two cents.
>>60369008
alright. When was the hyphen needed after a verb? I remember a kind of a rule that I learned in middle school...
>>60369125
i've never heard of that rule before
I also got a question
I got this line, that I'm not sure I understand correctly.
>To be considered valid in this respect, a notification should not be insufficiently precise or inadequately substantiated.
Does it really say that a notification shouldn't be precise and substantiated? It doesn't make sense to what I'm reading.
>>60369301
it means the notification must be sufficiently precise and adequately substantial. In other words it has to be good enough.
>>60369301
no it SHOULD be
>>60369301
it says that a notification should not be *insufficiently* precise which you could simplify as this, considering "insufficiently" = "not sufficiently"
> a notification should (not) be (not) sufficiently precise
becomes:
>a notification should be sufficiently precise
:)
>>60369352
>>60369370
>>60369433
Thanks m8s
