English question, please help?

2018-02-06 11:39 am
Electric vehicles have traditionally lost more of their value than petrol vehicles.

1. Why is there no "s" to make value plural in the sentence?

China has undergone a great many changes over the last few years.

2. Is this sentence grammatically wrong, with "a great many changes", why is "a" included here but there is plural for change at the same time?

Thanks.

回答 (1)

2018-02-07 10:07 pm
✔ 最佳答案
(1) " Electric vehicles have traditionally lost more of their value than petrol vehicles." ----- (✓)
i) " Electric vehicles have .... lost .... their value "
 "Electric vehicles" 是眾數, ∴ use "their"

ii) Q: Why is there no "s" to make value plural in the sentence?
 "value"=價值 can be "countable" or "uncountable".
 This sentence refers to the value of "electric vehicles"
 "value" here is taken as one WHOLE thing --- 電動車的「整體價值」, ∴ no "s" to make value plural!

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(2) " China has undergone a great many changes over the last few years." ----- (✓)
China has undergone a great change . . . [ 中國巳經歷過一項重大的轉變 . . . ]
China has undergone many changes . . . [ 中國巳經歷過很多的轉變 . . . ]
China has undergone a great many changes . . . [ 中國巳經歷過非常多的轉變 . . . ]

Note :-
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i) a change ≡ 一項轉變 , many changes ≡ 多項/很多 轉變, a great many changes ≡ 非常多/很多很多 的轉變
ii) "a great many" is a phrase, meaning "many many".
 "a great many" is of the same form as "a lot of". Each of these is a unique phrase.
 That is, we don't have phrases such as "great many" or "lot of"!
iii) Since "a great many" refers to 眾數, ∴ followed by a 眾數 noun --- "changes".


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