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Which way is correct to say “technologies websites†or “technology websites†and why?
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Which way is correct to say "technologies websites" or "technology websites" and why?
By a technology website I mean a website that contains some information about technologies
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Which way is correct to say "technologies websites" or "technology websites" and why?
By a technology website I mean a website that contains some information about technologies
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Maybe technological websites?...
– JustOneMan
Sep 4 at 20:21
@JustOneMan as of my understanding "technological websites" expression is about implementation of the websites and "technology websites" expression is about content of the websites
– evgpisarchik
Sep 5 at 21:29
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Which way is correct to say "technologies websites" or "technology websites" and why?
By a technology website I mean a website that contains some information about technologies
singular-vs-plural attributive-nouns
edited Sep 4 at 17:02
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asked Sep 4 at 11:25
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Which way is correct to say "technologies websites" or "technology websites" and why?
By a technology website I mean a website that contains some information about technologies
singular-vs-plural attributive-nouns
edited Sep 4 at 17:02
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asked Sep 4 at 11:25
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Maybe technological websites?...
– JustOneMan
Sep 4 at 20:21
@JustOneMan as of my understanding "technological websites" expression is about implementation of the websites and "technology websites" expression is about content of the websites
– evgpisarchik
Sep 5 at 21:29
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Maybe technological websites?...
– JustOneMan
Sep 4 at 20:21
@JustOneMan as of my understanding "technological websites" expression is about implementation of the websites and "technology websites" expression is about content of the websites
– evgpisarchik
Sep 5 at 21:29
Maybe technological websites?...
– JustOneMan
Sep 4 at 20:21
Maybe technological websites?...
– JustOneMan
Sep 4 at 20:21
@JustOneMan as of my understanding "technological websites" expression is about implementation of the websites and "technology websites" expression is about content of the websites
– evgpisarchik
Sep 5 at 21:29
@JustOneMan as of my understanding "technological websites" expression is about implementation of the websites and "technology websites" expression is about content of the websites
– evgpisarchik
Sep 5 at 21:29
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Technology is being used here as a noun adjunct (also called an attributive noun), which is to say, a noun being used as an adjective to describe another noun.
When nouns are used this way, they are used in the singular. Hence while a book shop will probably have more than one book, it is still a "book shop", not a "books shop".
This is even the case with nouns like scissors and trousers that are normally always plural: "Scissor sharpener", "trouser press", etc.
And hence you would want "technology websites" here.
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
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Ah... interesting - sometimes I find the problem with being a native speaker is you often know which is correct without being able to correctly label why ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 4 at 12:55
1
@Tetsujin it's what makes the study of grammar so interesting; it's not "here's a bunch of rules to follow" but rather "here's a bunch of rules you already follow, without even realising it".
– Jon Hanna
Sep 4 at 13:45
3
@evgpisarchik Google knows (some) grammar and spelling rules and so is searching for "technology website", "technology websites", "technologies website", etc, as well. In my listing, the only places where "technologies websites" occurs on the first page are for this question, company names ending with Technologies, and a study of tech used by websites, where something else is being said with the two words next to each other.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 16:48
2
@evgpisarchik Can you show a specific search result that uses "technologies websites" in the way you were asking about? "Company Technologies websites" doesn't work, because "Company Technologies" is a proper noun, naming an entity that operates multiple websites. The study preview fragment opens with "We wanted to find out what technologies websites were using," which is using a grammatical construct that happens to put the words next to each other, and is not a use of the two words as one unit.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 17:00
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@V2Blast Thanks for the correction! The point remains that it's incorrect without an apostrophe.
– CJ Dennis
Sep 5 at 7:11
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I can't quite decide whether it qualifies as an uncountable noun or simply an adjective to describe the type of website. Either way, technology remains singular in this usage.
Consider there are many websites, discussing many types of technology - you would still say
There are many technology websites, covering many aspects of many different technologies.
I've intentionally used many each time there - normally you would vary your counts & comparisons, but just to show which aspect we are counting each time
many websites [not technologies]
many aspects
but we close with a countable version,
many technologies.
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
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It becomes more clear when you swap "technology" with a noun that is clearly countable: book store, toy store, ant colony. It's neither uncountable nor a (true) adjective, it's a noun adjunct.
– Flater
Sep 5 at 8:37
Indeed, though to recognise that, first I would have had to have heard of a noun adjunct before today ;))
– Tetsujin
Sep 5 at 8:39
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2 Answers
2
active
oldest
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2 Answers
2
active
oldest
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
17
down vote
accepted
Technology is being used here as a noun adjunct (also called an attributive noun), which is to say, a noun being used as an adjective to describe another noun.
When nouns are used this way, they are used in the singular. Hence while a book shop will probably have more than one book, it is still a "book shop", not a "books shop".
This is even the case with nouns like scissors and trousers that are normally always plural: "Scissor sharpener", "trouser press", etc.
And hence you would want "technology websites" here.
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
1,084614
5
Ah... interesting - sometimes I find the problem with being a native speaker is you often know which is correct without being able to correctly label why ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 4 at 12:55
1
@Tetsujin it's what makes the study of grammar so interesting; it's not "here's a bunch of rules to follow" but rather "here's a bunch of rules you already follow, without even realising it".
– Jon Hanna
Sep 4 at 13:45
3
@evgpisarchik Google knows (some) grammar and spelling rules and so is searching for "technology website", "technology websites", "technologies website", etc, as well. In my listing, the only places where "technologies websites" occurs on the first page are for this question, company names ending with Technologies, and a study of tech used by websites, where something else is being said with the two words next to each other.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 16:48
2
@evgpisarchik Can you show a specific search result that uses "technologies websites" in the way you were asking about? "Company Technologies websites" doesn't work, because "Company Technologies" is a proper noun, naming an entity that operates multiple websites. The study preview fragment opens with "We wanted to find out what technologies websites were using," which is using a grammatical construct that happens to put the words next to each other, and is not a use of the two words as one unit.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 17:00
1
@V2Blast Thanks for the correction! The point remains that it's incorrect without an apostrophe.
– CJ Dennis
Sep 5 at 7:11
 |Â
show 6 more comments
up vote
17
down vote
accepted
Technology is being used here as a noun adjunct (also called an attributive noun), which is to say, a noun being used as an adjective to describe another noun.
When nouns are used this way, they are used in the singular. Hence while a book shop will probably have more than one book, it is still a "book shop", not a "books shop".
This is even the case with nouns like scissors and trousers that are normally always plural: "Scissor sharpener", "trouser press", etc.
And hence you would want "technology websites" here.
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
1,084614
5
Ah... interesting - sometimes I find the problem with being a native speaker is you often know which is correct without being able to correctly label why ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 4 at 12:55
1
@Tetsujin it's what makes the study of grammar so interesting; it's not "here's a bunch of rules to follow" but rather "here's a bunch of rules you already follow, without even realising it".
– Jon Hanna
Sep 4 at 13:45
3
@evgpisarchik Google knows (some) grammar and spelling rules and so is searching for "technology website", "technology websites", "technologies website", etc, as well. In my listing, the only places where "technologies websites" occurs on the first page are for this question, company names ending with Technologies, and a study of tech used by websites, where something else is being said with the two words next to each other.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 16:48
2
@evgpisarchik Can you show a specific search result that uses "technologies websites" in the way you were asking about? "Company Technologies websites" doesn't work, because "Company Technologies" is a proper noun, naming an entity that operates multiple websites. The study preview fragment opens with "We wanted to find out what technologies websites were using," which is using a grammatical construct that happens to put the words next to each other, and is not a use of the two words as one unit.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 17:00
1
@V2Blast Thanks for the correction! The point remains that it's incorrect without an apostrophe.
– CJ Dennis
Sep 5 at 7:11
 |Â
show 6 more comments
up vote
17
down vote
accepted
up vote
17
down vote
accepted
Technology is being used here as a noun adjunct (also called an attributive noun), which is to say, a noun being used as an adjective to describe another noun.
When nouns are used this way, they are used in the singular. Hence while a book shop will probably have more than one book, it is still a "book shop", not a "books shop".
This is even the case with nouns like scissors and trousers that are normally always plural: "Scissor sharpener", "trouser press", etc.
And hence you would want "technology websites" here.
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
1,084614
Technology is being used here as a noun adjunct (also called an attributive noun), which is to say, a noun being used as an adjective to describe another noun.
When nouns are used this way, they are used in the singular. Hence while a book shop will probably have more than one book, it is still a "book shop", not a "books shop".
This is even the case with nouns like scissors and trousers that are normally always plural: "Scissor sharpener", "trouser press", etc.
And hence you would want "technology websites" here.
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
1,084614
edited Sep 4 at 13:45
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
1,084614
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
1,084614
answered Sep 4 at 12:05
Jon Hanna
1,084614
1,084614
5
Ah... interesting - sometimes I find the problem with being a native speaker is you often know which is correct without being able to correctly label why ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 4 at 12:55
1
@Tetsujin it's what makes the study of grammar so interesting; it's not "here's a bunch of rules to follow" but rather "here's a bunch of rules you already follow, without even realising it".
– Jon Hanna
Sep 4 at 13:45
3
@evgpisarchik Google knows (some) grammar and spelling rules and so is searching for "technology website", "technology websites", "technologies website", etc, as well. In my listing, the only places where "technologies websites" occurs on the first page are for this question, company names ending with Technologies, and a study of tech used by websites, where something else is being said with the two words next to each other.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 16:48
2
@evgpisarchik Can you show a specific search result that uses "technologies websites" in the way you were asking about? "Company Technologies websites" doesn't work, because "Company Technologies" is a proper noun, naming an entity that operates multiple websites. The study preview fragment opens with "We wanted to find out what technologies websites were using," which is using a grammatical construct that happens to put the words next to each other, and is not a use of the two words as one unit.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 17:00
1
@V2Blast Thanks for the correction! The point remains that it's incorrect without an apostrophe.
– CJ Dennis
Sep 5 at 7:11
 |Â
show 6 more comments
5
Ah... interesting - sometimes I find the problem with being a native speaker is you often know which is correct without being able to correctly label why ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 4 at 12:55
1
@Tetsujin it's what makes the study of grammar so interesting; it's not "here's a bunch of rules to follow" but rather "here's a bunch of rules you already follow, without even realising it".
– Jon Hanna
Sep 4 at 13:45
3
@evgpisarchik Google knows (some) grammar and spelling rules and so is searching for "technology website", "technology websites", "technologies website", etc, as well. In my listing, the only places where "technologies websites" occurs on the first page are for this question, company names ending with Technologies, and a study of tech used by websites, where something else is being said with the two words next to each other.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 16:48
2
@evgpisarchik Can you show a specific search result that uses "technologies websites" in the way you were asking about? "Company Technologies websites" doesn't work, because "Company Technologies" is a proper noun, naming an entity that operates multiple websites. The study preview fragment opens with "We wanted to find out what technologies websites were using," which is using a grammatical construct that happens to put the words next to each other, and is not a use of the two words as one unit.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 17:00
1
@V2Blast Thanks for the correction! The point remains that it's incorrect without an apostrophe.
– CJ Dennis
Sep 5 at 7:11
5
5
Ah... interesting - sometimes I find the problem with being a native speaker is you often know which is correct without being able to correctly label why ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 4 at 12:55
Ah... interesting - sometimes I find the problem with being a native speaker is you often know which is correct without being able to correctly label why ;)
– Tetsujin
Sep 4 at 12:55
1
1
@Tetsujin it's what makes the study of grammar so interesting; it's not "here's a bunch of rules to follow" but rather "here's a bunch of rules you already follow, without even realising it".
– Jon Hanna
Sep 4 at 13:45
@Tetsujin it's what makes the study of grammar so interesting; it's not "here's a bunch of rules to follow" but rather "here's a bunch of rules you already follow, without even realising it".
– Jon Hanna
Sep 4 at 13:45
3
3
@evgpisarchik Google knows (some) grammar and spelling rules and so is searching for "technology website", "technology websites", "technologies website", etc, as well. In my listing, the only places where "technologies websites" occurs on the first page are for this question, company names ending with Technologies, and a study of tech used by websites, where something else is being said with the two words next to each other.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 16:48
@evgpisarchik Google knows (some) grammar and spelling rules and so is searching for "technology website", "technology websites", "technologies website", etc, as well. In my listing, the only places where "technologies websites" occurs on the first page are for this question, company names ending with Technologies, and a study of tech used by websites, where something else is being said with the two words next to each other.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 16:48
2
2
@evgpisarchik Can you show a specific search result that uses "technologies websites" in the way you were asking about? "Company Technologies websites" doesn't work, because "Company Technologies" is a proper noun, naming an entity that operates multiple websites. The study preview fragment opens with "We wanted to find out what technologies websites were using," which is using a grammatical construct that happens to put the words next to each other, and is not a use of the two words as one unit.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 17:00
@evgpisarchik Can you show a specific search result that uses "technologies websites" in the way you were asking about? "Company Technologies websites" doesn't work, because "Company Technologies" is a proper noun, naming an entity that operates multiple websites. The study preview fragment opens with "We wanted to find out what technologies websites were using," which is using a grammatical construct that happens to put the words next to each other, and is not a use of the two words as one unit.
– jaxad0127
Sep 4 at 17:00
1
1
@V2Blast Thanks for the correction! The point remains that it's incorrect without an apostrophe.
– CJ Dennis
Sep 5 at 7:11
@V2Blast Thanks for the correction! The point remains that it's incorrect without an apostrophe.
– CJ Dennis
Sep 5 at 7:11
 |Â
show 6 more comments
up vote
3
down vote
I can't quite decide whether it qualifies as an uncountable noun or simply an adjective to describe the type of website. Either way, technology remains singular in this usage.
Consider there are many websites, discussing many types of technology - you would still say
There are many technology websites, covering many aspects of many different technologies.
I've intentionally used many each time there - normally you would vary your counts & comparisons, but just to show which aspect we are counting each time
many websites [not technologies]
many aspects
but we close with a countable version,
many technologies.
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
10.2k21840
It becomes more clear when you swap "technology" with a noun that is clearly countable: book store, toy store, ant colony. It's neither uncountable nor a (true) adjective, it's a noun adjunct.
– Flater
Sep 5 at 8:37
Indeed, though to recognise that, first I would have had to have heard of a noun adjunct before today ;))
– Tetsujin
Sep 5 at 8:39
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
I can't quite decide whether it qualifies as an uncountable noun or simply an adjective to describe the type of website. Either way, technology remains singular in this usage.
Consider there are many websites, discussing many types of technology - you would still say
There are many technology websites, covering many aspects of many different technologies.
I've intentionally used many each time there - normally you would vary your counts & comparisons, but just to show which aspect we are counting each time
many websites [not technologies]
many aspects
but we close with a countable version,
many technologies.
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
10.2k21840
It becomes more clear when you swap "technology" with a noun that is clearly countable: book store, toy store, ant colony. It's neither uncountable nor a (true) adjective, it's a noun adjunct.
– Flater
Sep 5 at 8:37
Indeed, though to recognise that, first I would have had to have heard of a noun adjunct before today ;))
– Tetsujin
Sep 5 at 8:39
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
up vote
3
down vote
I can't quite decide whether it qualifies as an uncountable noun or simply an adjective to describe the type of website. Either way, technology remains singular in this usage.
Consider there are many websites, discussing many types of technology - you would still say
There are many technology websites, covering many aspects of many different technologies.
I've intentionally used many each time there - normally you would vary your counts & comparisons, but just to show which aspect we are counting each time
many websites [not technologies]
many aspects
but we close with a countable version,
many technologies.
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
10.2k21840
I can't quite decide whether it qualifies as an uncountable noun or simply an adjective to describe the type of website. Either way, technology remains singular in this usage.
Consider there are many websites, discussing many types of technology - you would still say
There are many technology websites, covering many aspects of many different technologies.
I've intentionally used many each time there - normally you would vary your counts & comparisons, but just to show which aspect we are counting each time
many websites [not technologies]
many aspects
but we close with a countable version,
many technologies.
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
10.2k21840
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
10.2k21840
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
10.2k21840
answered Sep 4 at 11:50
Tetsujin
10.2k21840
10.2k21840
It becomes more clear when you swap "technology" with a noun that is clearly countable: book store, toy store, ant colony. It's neither uncountable nor a (true) adjective, it's a noun adjunct.
– Flater
Sep 5 at 8:37
Indeed, though to recognise that, first I would have had to have heard of a noun adjunct before today ;))
– Tetsujin
Sep 5 at 8:39
add a comment |Â
It becomes more clear when you swap "technology" with a noun that is clearly countable: book store, toy store, ant colony. It's neither uncountable nor a (true) adjective, it's a noun adjunct.
– Flater
Sep 5 at 8:37
Indeed, though to recognise that, first I would have had to have heard of a noun adjunct before today ;))
– Tetsujin
Sep 5 at 8:39
It becomes more clear when you swap "technology" with a noun that is clearly countable: book store, toy store, ant colony. It's neither uncountable nor a (true) adjective, it's a noun adjunct.
– Flater
Sep 5 at 8:37
It becomes more clear when you swap "technology" with a noun that is clearly countable: book store, toy store, ant colony. It's neither uncountable nor a (true) adjective, it's a noun adjunct.
– Flater
Sep 5 at 8:37
Indeed, though to recognise that, first I would have had to have heard of a noun adjunct before today ;))
– Tetsujin
Sep 5 at 8:39
Indeed, though to recognise that, first I would have had to have heard of a noun adjunct before today ;))
– Tetsujin
Sep 5 at 8:39
add a comment |Â
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Maybe technological websites?...
– JustOneMan
Sep 4 at 20:21
@JustOneMan as of my understanding "technological websites" expression is about implementation of the websites and "technology websites" expression is about content of the websites
– evgpisarchik
Sep 5 at 21:29