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Detail, or details?

 
 
Reply Tue 1 Sep, 2009 07:31 pm
See the news headline below. Do you think whether "more detail" ought to be "more details"?

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Obama May Offer More Detail
Impatient with Senate negotiations, president weighs plan to describe goals, White House says.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/?reload=true
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Reply Wed 2 Sep, 2009 12:29 pm
@oristarA,
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See the news headline below. Do you think [whether] "more detail" ought to be "more details"?

Context:
Obama May Offer More Detail
Impatient with Senate negotiations, president weighs plan to describe goals, White House says.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/?reload=true


detail holds both a collective sense meaning like information and a singular sense meaning as in one detail, a list of details, Ori, so it COULD be either but in this case, detail is the ticket.


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M-W

detail

1 : extended treatment of or attention to particular items

" in detail : with all the particulars <explained the job in detail>

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Reply Thu 3 Sep, 2009 08:55 pm
@JTT,
Good nuance.
Thanks
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