Timeline for Scientific "control" as uncountable noun
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| Dec 29, 2017 at 4:46 | vote | accept | Suds | ||
| Dec 22, 2017 at 14:03 | comment | added | Mitch | Anyway, 'control' is countable. Can you use it without 'a' or 'the'? I suppose, but that's idiomatic. Your examples sound really off to me, but if people use it a lot, then maybe that idiosyncratic usage has caught on. | |
| Dec 22, 2017 at 14:01 | comment | added | Mitch | Isn't the concept of 'uncountable' about whether you can use a count like 'a' or 'five'? (it's not about 'the') "Come in, the water is warm." (meaning 'this water') and "No, I'd prefer water that is hot" (you're not using 'a' here) are using the non-count noun 'water' appropriately. | |
| Dec 22, 2017 at 13:17 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 22, 2017 at 12:47 | history | asked | Suds | CC BY-SA 3.0 |