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In what occasions is the word 'powder' used as a countable noun? I have seen the expression "a powder". What does 'a powder' mean? Does 'two powders' make sense either?
Dec 20, 2011 2:51 PM
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"A powder" is understood to mean "a kind of powder". Likewise "two powders" would be taken to mean "two kinds of powder". "The snow covered the land with a fine powder" = "The snow covered the land with fine powder." You would hear the first one more often than the second because of tradition over time.
December 20, 2011
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December 20, 2011
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