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Sat 5 Sep, 2015 03:52 am
situation:
You might put 'credit' on a card in multiples of $10; if you want to use the a/c, you have to pay $1/hour. You need to insert the card into a slot in a machine to activate the a/c in your room. If John's brother turns on the a/c for an hour, and John comes back, finding that his remaining $1 of the a/c service has been used, could John say?
-That's one credit from me.
'One credit/Two credit/Three credit' sounds not right, but I don't know any word we can use.
If I were John I might say "My remaining credit of $1 has been used up". We are using credit here as a non-count (mass) noun - I have credit of $1; I need credit of $100; I used $10 credit.
If John were an American, he might say: "Well, that's a dollar out of my pocket." TYN is correct, credit is a noun of unspecified quantity.
Thank you; but for Tes, do you mean we could say this or set this on the screen of the machine controlling the a/c?
-You have added one-dollar credit to the account of your room.
@WBYeats,
Strictly speaking, "one dollar
of credit" but in informal speech you could omit the "of".
@WBYeats,
The word credit is used as a countable noun in cases where you are paying for a specific service. In my youth we went to video game arcades and for 25 cents you could get a token good for one game... or for 10 dollars you could get a few extra (i.e. 45 tokens for 10 dollars).
Each of these token was one credit. If you had 5 of them you had 5 credits. The machines would tell you how many credits you had.
I think this air conditioning scheme is much the same. I would say if you pay $10 you receive 10 credits.
@maxdancona,
Is your first language American Eng.?
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