reference to quantity. Because of this, the choice can serve a semantic purpose. However, some abstract phenomena like "fun" and "hope" have properties that are very difficult to quantify, and thus make it very difficult to refer to them with a count noun.

Below are examples of all the properties of count nouns holding for the count noun chair, but not for the mass noun furniture.

Some determiners can be used with both mass and count nouns, including "all",

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