【词汇大师】一句话的事(1/2)

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别看小小的一句话，一个词，甚至一个字，
    有时他们的意思在不同人的表达里可以大不相同
            也许这一句话的事，就可以改变什么。。。
TIPS
本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"And this has to do with the difference between countable and uncountable nouns."
HINTS
Barack Obama
California
explanatory

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"A noun is usually defined as a person, a place, a thing or an idea. So you have abstract nouns, things like love or democracy or beauty. OK, those are abstract nouns. Furthermore, nouns can be divided into two categories.
"There's what are called proper nouns, which are the ones that start with a capital letter, like Barack Obama or California or English. And then there are common nouns, which are the ones that start with a lower case letter, like a table or a radio or a puppy.
"So to answer the writer's second question first, names are proper nouns, OK? They start with capital letters. So a name is one kind of noun. Now the writer's first question is actually the much more interesting one."
"Right, and uncountable nouns are also called non-count nouns. A count noun kind of is self-explanatory, because it's something that you can count.
"For example, 'microphone' is a countable noun. You can say one microphone, two microphones and so on. So anything that can actually be counted and that has an s to form the plural is a countable noun.