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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 382. The title of today's lesson is
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when company means companionship it is uncountable or it is an uncountable noun.
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Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Company as a noun has many meanings. If
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the word "company "means someone or something that keeps someone, meaning
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another person, from getting lonely or refers to one or more people visiting
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one's home, it is an uncountable noun. So again here, with the X, all the X's they're
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wrong and then the second one will be the correct one. So first one. Many senior
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citizens who live alone will get a dog as a company. Yeah. You would never say a
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company here. A company actually almost sounds like a business. Like you're
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getting a dog as a business. That doesn't quite make sense. So of course what you
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would what you should say is "many senior citizens who live alone will get a dog
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as company". No "a." Okay. And the second one, well this is one where we would
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invite somebody to our home. I invited a co-worker to dinner. So we will have a
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company tonight. No definitely not. You would say I invited
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a co-worker to dinner, so we will have company tonight. And of course if it were
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you know a couple of people like you know I'm invited two friends over for
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dinner. So we will have company tonight. That would be the correct way of saying
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it. You wouldn't say that we have companies or anything like that. All
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right. And the last one here. Again with the X, this part is wrong. I enjoy when
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you visit. You are always a good company. Again it makes it almost sound like they're
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a business company. Now you should say I enjoy when you visit you're always good
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company. So remember anytime if company means companionship or somebody who's
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visiting you or you know, keeping you from being lonely,
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it is uncountable in that sense. Okay. Anyway,
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I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.