Over the past 12 years, this column had pretty much covered every aspect of nouns that’s absolutely needed by lay learners of English, but then I got e-mail last weekend that took me by surprise with this very basic grammar question:

“Is there such a thing as a mass noun? If so, please differentiate it from a collective noun.”

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