'Morning' vs 'Mornings'

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi

Please tell me which one of the following is better.

1- I get up early because I love morning.
2- I get up early because I love mornings.

Tom

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Hi Tom
I’d go for
Ex.I get up early because I love morning.
As for me, I use ‘mornings’ only as an adverb but not a noun. :roll:

I don’t know if it’s possible to use ‘mornings’ in a sense of ‘every morning (noun).’ I’ve never come across the very usage. :oops:

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Hi Tom

I might say either one. To me “mornings” is just the plural form of a noun in the second sentence. You might also hear people say “I love the morning.”

Amy

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Many thanks, Amy!I’ve never met ‘mornings’ used as a plural form( that is what I exactly meant by ‘every morning’) of the noun ‘morning’. I agree that my wording was ambiguous. :roll: So, is it a norm to say ‘mornings’ used as a noun?

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Pamela, by the way, in Russian it’s also quite ‘normal’ (usual) to say 'I love eveningS.’ (Podmoskovnye Vechera, in particular :)),
but rather unusual (understandable, though) to say ‘I like morningS’. (Personally, I might say that. :))

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Hi Pamela

I’m not sure if I’m interpreting your question correctly, but, yes, mornings is easily used as a plural noun:

How are your weekday mornings different from weekend mornings?
We met on two different mornings last week. (= on two different days in the morning)

Amy

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Hi Amy,
At least, in two other languages I speak it’s also quite normal to say ‘two mornings’ and etc. but incorrect to say ‘mornings’ as a separate word when it’s not modified by… :slight_smile: .

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Hi Tamara,
I cannot even utter this in Russian “Я люблю утра” :shock: 8) :wink:

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Hi Pamela,

I don’t actualy see a big problem in saying in Russian (say, looking out the window) ‘Я люблю (такие) утра, как это’ (I love morningS like this),
or Я люблю (такие) утра, когда не надо рано вставать (I like morningS when there is no need to get up early).
Or ‘I like mornings and hate evenings’ [size=84](even though it is not true for me :))[/size].

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Hi Tamara,
Yes, it’s not a big problem. But saying ‘я люблю утра’(especially in Tom’s sentence) is rather unusual(unnatural) to me. :smiley:

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Well ladies, I think the time has now come to say ‘good night’

A