Countable vs Uncountable Nouns
Countable vs Uncountable Nouns
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I am not a native English speaker and would like to ask a very simple question which puzzles me.
In a cover letter, I want to list my experience with this sentence like “my experience has been concentrated in a variety of xxxxxxx, ranging from the design & assessment of post-tensioned box girder to steel composite box girder bridge.”
Should “post tensioned box girder bridge” be considered as a countable noun? If so, do I have to add “s” to “box girder” as I did design more than 1 post tensioned box girder bridge?
In a cover letter, I want to list my experience with this sentence like “my experience has been concentrated in a variety of xxxxxxx, ranging from the design & assessment of post-tensioned box girder to steel composite box girder bridge.”
Should “post tensioned box girder bridge” be considered as a countable noun? If so, do I have to add “s” to “box girder” as I did design more than 1 post tensioned box girder bridge?





RE: Countable vs Uncountable Nouns
Countable - 1 bridge 2 bridges 3 bridges.
Uncountable - rice - a little rice - much rice - a lot of rice.
For your letter you could say 2 / 3 /4 bridges or many bridges or a number of bridges.
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“my experience has been concentrated in a variety of xxxxxxx, ranging from the design & assessment of post-tensioned box girder bridge to steel composite box girder bridge.” ?
then maybe a simpler sentence would be ... “my experience has been concentrated on the design & assessment of a variety of bridge designs, ranging from post-tensioned box girder to steel composite box girder.”
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Use more active voice (first person "I"). Also eliminate extra phrases and get to the point.
"I have recent experience with design and assessment."
Use "and". Save the ampersand for texting and liquor labels.
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"Concentrated over a variety" sounds like an oxymoron. Was your experience narrow or broad? Perhaps, "extends over a variety" or "concentrated in a few".
Also, what comes between the "design & assessment of post-tensioned box girder" and "steel composite box girder bridge"? My experience reading resumes is that when people say their experience ranges between two things, what they really mean is only those two things. Why else would they assume I know what comes between those two things?
I'm sorry I know this is off topic, but it just got me thinking.
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What I want to say is I did design & assessment of post tensioned bridges and design & assessment of steel box girder bridges. In my view, the post-tensioned bridge and steel composite box girders are two different things and need different knowledge in the design...
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