Which of these sentences are grammatically correct?
1. My boss gave me a very useful feedback the other day.
2. Supermarkets have aisles for different foods.
3. I have loads of homeworks to do.
Easy, huh? Well, carry on.
4. The debate was filled with evidences that the candidate did not know what she was talking about.
5. I need a good advice from a person like you.
6. What a depressing weather! I hate it when it rains like that.
7. Now, that’s what I call a good music.
8. Slangs are difficult to learn and use well.
9. She has a good knowledge of the language.
10. The Dutch are famous for their cheeses.
11. I was watching the news and they were so depressing that I decided to turn off the TV.
12. I need an information. Can you help me?
Read on to check your answers.
Sentences 2, 9 and 10 are correct. The others should read:
1. My boss gave me (some) very useful feedback the other day.
3. I have loads of homework to do.
4. The debate was filled with evidence that the candidate did not know what she was talking about.
5. I need (some) good advice from a person like you.
6. What depressing weather! I hate it when it rains like that.
7. Now, that’s what I call good music.
8. Slang is difficult to learn and use well.
11. I was watching the news and it was so depressing that I decided to turn off the TV.
12. I need some information. Can you help me?
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This kind of exercise is very good!
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Thank you, Rejane.
You know, at first I was a little reluctant to include these test your English posts, but they've turned out to be some of the most successful (number of visits) features of the site.
I, for one, really like them
Thank you. 🙂
I love your posts Luiz!! And have been using them in Stockholm! 🙂 😉 😀
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Thank you for your kind words, Patricia.
Got 10/12. Not so depressing after all. Thank you.
That's actually excellent!
Thank you
This is very useful but a bit confusing for me because I can’t get back to a rule.
“Confusing” I refer to the words not your post.
I’m working on improving my English.
I also found this link helpful as well
http://www.better-english.com/grammar/sinplu.htm
Greeting from Cairo
Magdy,
The choice of what is countable/uncountable is often fairly arbitrary, so maybe your best bet is to remember the most frequent non-count nouns and perhaps learn them lexically.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by!
Thanks Luiz!
All your infos here and the exercises are really good! Easy to follow and easy to understand. You´re site is now my study aid. They´re all helpful! Thousand thanks!
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Thank you, Carmen!