mass noun

It can be used with both count and mass nouns.

In the English language, such words are almost always Mass noun.

Lacking number, Japanese does not differentiate between count and mass nouns.

Some mass nouns can be pluralized, but the meaning in this case may change somewhat.

Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants.

Data is most often used as a singular mass noun in educated everyday usage.

Consequently, we tend to refer to air with the mass noun "air".

A mass noun has none of these properties.

As an English mass noun, the term "offal" has no plural form.

The plural is the same as the singular, and it can also be used as a mass noun.

In this sense, virtually all Japanese nouns are mass nouns.

Plurality of mass nouns and the grammar of number.

In Slovene, mass nouns are either singular or plural.

For such mass nouns, one must use mass-classifiers.

This gender also contains some "higher" animals and mass nouns such as dust and sand.

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping.

Mycelium is a mass noun with no plural form .

There is often confusion about the two different concepts of collective noun and mass noun.

Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated network of hacktivists.

Many languages distinguish between count nouns and mass nouns.

Partitive articles are used with mass nouns.

Mass nouns, like "wine", "silverware", and "wisdom", are normally used in only the singular.

Class IV originally included abstract words, collective and mass nouns, such as water, salt, sky or wind.

The comparative less, it is argued, should be used when speaking of a grammatically singular noun (including mass nouns).

Conversely, "fire" is frequently used as a mass noun, but "a fire" refers to a discrete entity.