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thistles.
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Everyday grammar.
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I'm John Russell.
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Sometimes the traffic in Washington D.
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C.
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Is terrible.
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Just the other day, I was stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
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When I took a break from yelling at other drivers, I started to think about the word traffic.
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Traffic in English is a non count noun.
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In other words, English speakers don't make traffic plural by adding an S, and you won't hear English speakers use a an or the before traffic, so you will not hear English speakers say I was stuck in traffics or I was stuck in the traffic.
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Even though traffic refers to a lot of individual cars that you can count English speakers consider traffic to be a non count noun.
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In this respect, Common now owns related toe language Study are also considered to be non count, like traffic, grammar and vocabulary are non countdown's.
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So how do English speakers turn these non count announce into countdown's or now owns that can be plural.
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They add another now.