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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (2190)	3/22/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Read Replies (4) of 4711

Help, thread! I'm in a grammar debate at work. Right: "Software is what runs on hardware." Wrong: "Yesterday I bought a software for my computer." Right: "Yesterday I bought a software product for my computer." *RIGHT???* And does anyone know the grammatical term describing nouns that aren't supposed to be preceded with the article "a" or "an," such as "mountaineering," or "resourcefulness"? They seem to be words that describe classes of objects, or things that aren't "things" in an individual sense. Help! I need to browbeat someone here by calling on the right grammatical term!

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