query: Strange use of "were" with uncountable nouns
positive_passages.docid: 17975
positive_passages.text: Why is it "If I were you" and not "If I was you"?
negative_passages.docid: 144740
negative_passages.text: Why many abstract nouns get an indefinite article while it's taught that abstract nouns shouldn't get it?
negative_passages.docid: 46644
negative_passages.text: Was or is? Confusion
negative_passages.docid: 141553
negative_passages.text: "I never was" vs. "I was never"
negative_passages.docid: 91872
negative_passages.text: Indefinite article before uncountable "drink" nouns, e.g. "a water"
negative_passages.docid: 81021
negative_passages.text: The use of "random" to mean "arbitrary", "unidentified", "unknown", etc
negative_passages.docid: 27829
negative_passages.text: "Any" followed by singular or plural countable nouns?
negative_passages.docid: 75926
negative_passages.text: Pure verbal nouns/deverbal nouns vs. gerunds
negative_passages.docid: 28536
negative_passages.text: Why are these words ungrammatical
negative_passages.docid: 143296
negative_passages.text: Is there a noun that doesn't have a plural in any of its forms?
negative_passages.docid: 25213
negative_passages.text: Analysing the "kind(s) of problem(s) are [ones]/[to be]" construction
negative_passages.docid: 98642
negative_passages.text: Two possessive nouns in a row
negative_passages.docid: 86581
negative_passages.text: Use of "were to" in English grammar
negative_passages.docid: 18837
negative_passages.text: Singular vs plural with multiple nouns stringed together
negative_passages.docid: 38669
negative_passages.text: "Was" or "were" in subjunctive clauses
negative_passages.docid: 6083
negative_passages.text: Nouns of plural form preceding another noun
negative_passages.docid: 137568
negative_passages.text: Confusion using articles (A ,an ,the)