@Setanta,
The job is to audit some advertisement [in] on A2K to ensure commercial behavior will not hurt user experience or affect any academic freedom.
Quote:You probably want "some advertisements." If someone were to say "the job is to audit some advertisement," in the singular, it would mean that they are referring to a specific advertisement, but hadn't troubled to identify it more accurately,
No, it wouldn't mean that. It might, I suppose, if there was that context. It could mean "one of the advertisments", "the one advertisement that you choose to audit".
[I'm a little puzzled as to the use here of 'audit' and 'job', Ori.]
Quote: and there would be an implication of seeing the ad in a dismissive light.
Equally false, unless there is a context that I'm missing, which is possible.
Quote:By saying some advertisements, you are saying some unspecified ads, but the statement is value neutral, and would be taken as a description of the job as planned.
Equally so, by saying "some advertisement [no 's'], you could be saying what I described above.