Strange... 5 years of college prep school and 2 years of studying Latin and I never heard the terms "mass noun" and "count noun". Neither have my friends who were English majors.
It seems to me that it is like fish; you can say "I caught a fish", or "Those are some big fish". The word is the same whether it is singular or plural, so you have to infer which it is from the context.
Strange... 5 years of college prep school and 2 years of studying Latin and I never heard the terms "mass noun" and "count noun". Neither have my friends who were English majors.
It seems to me that it is like fish; you can say "I caught a fish", or "Those are some big fish". The word is the same whether it is singular or plural, so you have to infer which it is from the context.