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It's the nice weather
Could you please explain me why "It's THE nice weather" is not correct grammatically?
If I'm not mistaken, the correct form is "It's nice weather", but I wonder why exactly.
I know that weather is uncountable, but still, we say "THE weather is good", don't we?
1 sept. 2016 06:23
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We're not being specific about the weather. Today's weather is an example of nice weather.
Compare it with these sentences:
He's a nice guy.
This is nice coffee.
It's a nice place.
...in all cases, we don't use "the".
"The" can be used with countable and uncountable nouns equally. You can revise your notes on when to use "a/an/the".
In the case of "The weather is nice", we know which weather you mean: today's weather.
1 septembre 2016
because weather is uncountable noun, we use the mostly with countable nouns.
1 septembre 2016
Hmm - I tried to answer that, but I can't. I don't know the grammar well enough. The first version is normally not correct, except as a phrase, or in answer to a question, such as 'why is that tree flowering so early?'. But I don't know _why_.
1 septembre 2016
because weather is uncountable noun, we use the mostly with countable nouns.
1 septembre 2016
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Zamir
Compétences linguistiques
Anglais, Allemand, Russe
Langue étudiée
Anglais, Allemand
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