D****r
发帖数: 162 | 1 advice, information, evidence, luggage, news, faculty are non-countable
nouns. There are no advices, informations, evidences, newses, luggages. It
is one piece of advice. one line of evidence. one member of faculty, etc.
When you want to stop someone from revealing his sex life to you, you say
TOO MUCH INFORMATION, not too many informations.
academia is a noun. academic is an adj.
I work in industry or academia.
I prefer the academic setting.
The industrial or academic jobs.
Here is an expanded list from TOEFL:
accommodation
advice
baggage
bread
equipment
furniture
garbage
information
knowledge
luggage
money
news
pasta
progress
research
travel
work | d**o
发帖数: 618 | 2 I fule u.
academic is a noun to describe a person. That is the way I used it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic
【在 D****r 的大作中提到】
: advice, information, evidence, luggage, news, faculty are non-countable
: nouns. There are no advices, informations, evidences, newses, luggages. It
: is one piece of advice. one line of evidence. one member of faculty, etc.
: When you want to stop someone from revealing his sex life to you, you say
: TOO MUCH INFORMATION, not too many informations.
: academia is a noun. academic is an adj.
: I work in industry or academia.
: I prefer the academic setting.
: The industrial or academic jobs.
: Here is an expanded list from TOEFL:
| D****r
发帖数: 162 | 3 Thank you. Totally. Academics and professors are kinda interchangeable. I wasnt thinking through. I guess you could say academics will not run into this problem. Or academia does not have this problem. Or say a CMG academic.
'academic就没有这个问题。我很崇拜的一位academic CMG'
【在 d**o 的大作中提到】
: I fule u.
: academic is a noun to describe a person. That is the way I used it.
: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic
| A*******s
发帖数: 9638 | 4 Many thanks to dojo and Dr.NBjr. | D****r
发帖数: 162 | 5 http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=230933
Along this line, a lot of fish. Not a lot of fishes. But it is fishes when
you refer to different kinds of fish, say in a fish tank.
beer
beer, | A*******s
发帖数: 9638 | 6 Good discussion.
I'd like to have this thread dedicated for the correction of our common
errors here. Like Dr.NBjr did, correct the errors in general here, not right
after any individual post. | D****r
发帖数: 162 | 7 advice, information, evidence, luggage, news, faculty are non-countable
nouns. There are no advices, informations, evidences, newses, luggages. It
is one piece of advice. one line of evidence. one member of faculty, etc.
When you want to stop someone from revealing his sex life to you, you say
TOO MUCH INFORMATION, not too many informations.
academia is a noun. academic is an adj.
I work in industry or academia.
I prefer the academic setting.
The industrial or academic jobs.
Here is an expanded list from TOEFL:
accommodation
advice
baggage
bread
equipment
furniture
garbage
information
knowledge
luggage
money
news
pasta
progress
research
travel
work | d**o
发帖数: 618 | 8 I fule u.
academic is a noun to describe a person. That is the way I used it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic
【在 D****r 的大作中提到】
: advice, information, evidence, luggage, news, faculty are non-countable
: nouns. There are no advices, informations, evidences, newses, luggages. It
: is one piece of advice. one line of evidence. one member of faculty, etc.
: When you want to stop someone from revealing his sex life to you, you say
: TOO MUCH INFORMATION, not too many informations.
: academia is a noun. academic is an adj.
: I work in industry or academia.
: I prefer the academic setting.
: The industrial or academic jobs.
: Here is an expanded list from TOEFL:
| D****r
发帖数: 162 | 9 Thank you. Totally. Academics and professors are kinda interchangeable. I wasnt thinking through. I guess you could say academics will not run into this problem. Or academia does not have this problem. Or say a CMG academic.
'academic就没有这个问题。我很崇拜的一位academic CMG'
【在 d**o 的大作中提到】
: I fule u.
: academic is a noun to describe a person. That is the way I used it.
: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic
| A*******s
发帖数: 9638 | 10 Many thanks to dojo and Dr.NBjr. | D****r
发帖数: 162 | 11 http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=230933
Along this line, a lot of fish. Not a lot of fishes. But it is fishes when
you refer to different kinds of fish, say in a fish tank.
beer
beer, | A*******s
发帖数: 9638 | 12 Good discussion.
I'd like to have this thread dedicated for the correction of our common
errors here. Like Dr.NBjr did, correct the errors in general here, not right
after any individual post. | J****S
发帖数: 1591 | 13 óD2?
It
【在 D****r 的大作中提到】
: advice, information, evidence, luggage, news, faculty are non-countable
: nouns. There are no advices, informations, evidences, newses, luggages. It
: is one piece of advice. one line of evidence. one member of faculty, etc.
: When you want to stop someone from revealing his sex life to you, you say
: TOO MUCH INFORMATION, not too many informations.
: academia is a noun. academic is an adj.
: I work in industry or academia.
: I prefer the academic setting.
: The industrial or academic jobs.
: Here is an expanded list from TOEFL:
| D**i
发帖数: 325 | 14 óD2?
It
【在 D****r 的大作中提到】
: advice, information, evidence, luggage, news, faculty are non-countable
: nouns. There are no advices, informations, evidences, newses, luggages. It
: is one piece of advice. one line of evidence. one member of faculty, etc.
: When you want to stop someone from revealing his sex life to you, you say
: TOO MUCH INFORMATION, not too many informations.
: academia is a noun. academic is an adj.
: I work in industry or academia.
: I prefer the academic setting.
: The industrial or academic jobs.
: Here is an expanded list from TOEFL:
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