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Jul 10, 2011 · English-US. Jul 11, 2011. #2. I probably hear and read "at" more than any other preposition after the adjective "talented": He's talented at music. As you've noted, "for" is the ordinary preposition to use after the noun "talent": She has a talent for languages. "In" sounds possible, but I'd expect to see it used before a noun that covered some ...
Sep 28, 2016 · Scotland. German/English bilingual. May 8, 2013. #3. Talent is not countable when you are measuring it. One person or several persons can have a lot of talent, or much talent, and this means they are very talented, but typically in one specific field. In this case "talent" is singular even with plural "persons". But talent can also be countable.
Jul 1, 2018 · Jul 1, 2018. #1. [U, C] people or a person with a natural ability to do sth well: There is a wealth of young talent in British theatre. He is a great talent. The above is the explanation of "talent" in Oxford advanced English dictionary. But whether it is countable or uncountable is a gnawing problem.
Apr 13, 2007 · Talent can be a singular noun, referring to a person or people who are talented. Talents would refer to several skills and abilities, rather than to the persons possessing them. A producer of a show might ask the director not to offend the talent...meaning the star (s). There is the producer, the director and the talent....each must know its role.
Apr 21, 2011 · Talent with no article = skill and ability in general. He didn’t care whether his guests were rich or poor, as long as they had talent. A talent = a particular skill in one thing. You have a talent for learning English. Talents = skills in different things. This girl has many talents: she can sing, dance and draw.
Jan 25, 2018 · Korean. Jan 25, 2018. #1. Hi all, is the "a" necessary in the following sentence which I made up? These students have (a) talent for singing and dancing. I'm not sure because dictionaries label the word as both countable and uncountable. Many thanks!
Jun 18, 2021 · Jun 18, 2021. #1. talent a natural ability to do something very well. Porter has a talent for making a difficult subject understandable and interesting. [Longman Language Activator] flair a special ability to do something very well and in a way that shows a lot of imagination. If you have a flair for languages, there are some good career ...
Mar 29, 2015 · Colorado. English-US. Mar 29, 2015. #4. - You have the talent to learn English. - You have the skill to learn English. "Talent" looks possible in this sentence, but I'd use "ability" if I wrote the sentence: You have the ability to learn English. "Skill" looks strange to me if you are talking about an undeveloped ability.
Jan 7, 2016 · West Coast. English - USA. Jan 7, 2016. #3. It's not because of the meaning of talent; if anything, "got" puts more emphasis on obtaining it rather than just having it. It's simply because it's more casual and forms a fixed expression. "You've got talent." "She's got style." You wouldn't write this in your college final paper, but it gets more ...
Dec 29, 2018 · He has talent. He is talented. He has talented. Hello Loob, I just answered someone on my Instagram page who wrote, "You have talent." I corrected her, as "You have a talent." I didn't know that "he has talent", can be correct. I searched but I failed to find any similar sentences. Even in the Longman dictionary, all the examples are "a talent."
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