有人问到一道填空题:
(1)She has taken a lot of different _____, but she feels even worse.
答案为medicines。请问为何用复数形式?medicine难道是可数名词吗?
物质名词medicine(药)可用作不可数名词,如:
(2)The cough will pass away without medicine .
(3)Take two spoonfuls of cough medicine at bed time.
但也可用作可数名词,表示种类,上述句(1)即是一例,再如:
(4)One of my medicines tastes of strawberries.
(5)She has a cupboard full of different medicines .
像medicines这样表种类的复形物质名词,还有wines, liquids, teas, wheats等。顺便提一下,形容词different之后常接可数复形名词,这也算是上述句(1)应用medicines的理由之一。
