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Olivia
poetry is uncountable. How about poem ?
2 apr 2011 14:22
Risposte · 4
Yes, it is--poems, as of pinions (feathers), and peons (messengers) (also, poetics, toiletries, polities, hippopotamuses~)
4 aprile 2011
'Poem' is countable.
1 poem, 2 poems...
4 aprile 2011
Poetry is an uncountable noun because it refers to a group or collection of things, e.g.,
Poetry is made up of all the poems that have been written.
Water is made up of all the H2O molecules.
Information is made up of / Information consists of one or more pieces of information.
A poem is a single, independent item/thing and we can count how many poems there are, so "poem" is a countable noun, e.g.,
There are 60 poems in my book of poetry.
Here is a link to some good information about countable/non-countable (uncountable) nouns:
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarforbeginners/a/g_cucount.htm
And here is a link to a fun quiz:
http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/trouindx.htm#com
click on the quiz under the heading "Adjectives, Articles, Adverbs"
2 aprile 2011
Poem is countable. You can say 'Shakespeare wrote poems as well as plays'.
2 aprile 2011
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Olivia
Competenze linguistiche
Cinese (mandarino), Inglese, Francese
Lingua di apprendimento
Francese
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