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Please, could you tell me, is the noun "soul" countable or uncountable noun. What word should I use with this word 'much' or 'many'? Does it depend on the context? There is a novel Nikolai Gogol "Dead Souls" (Russian: «Мёртвые души», Mjórtvyje dúshi) but yesterday an English teacher told us that soul is an uncountable noun.
17. Apr. 2019 08:18
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It can be countable or uncountable. Most of the time, it will be countable. If you are talking about "souls" as individual units (each person has a soul), then the word is countable (if there are twelve people, there are twelve souls). If you are talking about "soul" as a quality or a type of substance, then it is uncountable. "This music has a lot of soul." The uncountable form is fairly rare. Particularly in religious contexts, it is very common to talk about human "souls," plural. They're definitely countable.
17. April 2019
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Souls as dead people is countable. Many souls were lost that day. "soul" as something that a song has is uncountable. That song sure has lots of soul.
17. April 2019
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