Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Can "zero" be used to describe uncountable nouns?



“There was zero courage in this verdict,” he said. ”I think this goes to the jury not wanting to make a difficult decision."



I learned that mass nouns cannot be enumerated.


Yes, I know that zero courage can be replaced with no courage, but, since zero is a number, I wonder whether zero courage is ungrammatical or only sloppy style.




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