On Dec 6, 6:40*am, Tom Watson wrote:
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:35:11 -0800, Larry Jaques

wrote:
Tom Watson wrote:
"For example, some, any, none, no, and all can be used as non-count as
well as count..."

Oxford English Grammar, *Sidney Greenbaum, Oxford University Press,
1996. *p. 192.

Sidney could have told you that, but he's mistaken on "none are",
AFAIC. *I don't cotton to "shiney", either. I learned it as "shiny"
and that's how it's spelled, period. *

Ah... *Naturally I shall, in future, cite you in all matters
grammatical rather than those hosers at the sister publication to the
OED.

Regards,

Tom Watsonhttp://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/

Oh, you mean the 'English' dictionary....not the American
dictionary"