You won’t find any accommodations in the mountain. (page 5, Standard TOEFL Vocabulary, by Wang Xin)
I think the above sentence should be written as follows: You won’t find any accommodations on the mountain.
Am I right?
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I agree that ‘on the mountain’ sounds better. ‘In the mountain’ could mean ‘inside the mountain’, which doesn’t relally make sense. You would probably say - in the mountain area/region/district.
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@Alan Thinks would probably change if you used the plural ‘mountains’: You won’t find any accommodation in the mountains’.
By the way, I’m not entirely happy with ‘accommodiations’. What is your take on this, Alan?
I didn’t spot that - better to keep ‘accommodation’ as singular only and express plurality as for example - different/many types/kinds of accommodation.
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accommodations
noun [ plural ]
a place to stay when you are travelling, especially a hotel room:
Sweepstakes winners will enjoy a week-long stay in luxury accommodations in Las Vegas.
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Accommodation is uncountable.
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In American English, it is used in the plural.
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Not exactly because even in American English you wouldn’t say something like ‘we have three accommodations’ so it falls pretty much into the same category as ‘information’ or ‘advice’.
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Torsten is right - it is in an in-between area. In the US, even though we don’t number accommodations, it is much more countable than information. We use the plural “accommodations” all the time and we use phrases like “are there any accommodations available for February 14?”
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I have seen both the forms. While writing I use the singular unless the addressee is an American. In my opinion, it is to be treated as a non-count noun and not to be pluralized.
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