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Is island an uncountable noun?
"Te Ka and the demons of the deep still lurk, hiding in a darkness that will continue to spread, chasing away our fish, draining the life from island after island,...." -it's from Moana
When I look up the dictionary, it says island is countable.
So I think "island" in the sentence above needs an article or they should be plural..
But it's just 'island'..
Could anyone help me with this?
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when you want to express the continuty of something in time, you use AFTER and a singular noun. Example:
DAY AFTER DAY (you don't say days after days)
YEAR AFTER YEAR
ISLAND AFTER ISLAND
etc
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it works as an abverb here, "day by day", "island after island", "at school", "in hospital" etc
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Sss090
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