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Accommodation English British Place Stay Live Uncountable Year

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Keyword accommodation
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence Could you help me look for an accommodation?
Correct Sentence Could you help me look for accommodation?
Cloze Error Sentence Could you help me look for [[an]] accommodation?
Cloze Sentence Could you help me look for [[ ]] accommodation?
Cloze Answer _
Choices an | _
Explanation

In British English accommodation (= a place to stay or live in) is always uncountable: 'For the first year we stayed in rented accommodation.'

In American English both accommodation and accommodations (plural) are used.

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