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habit
1
It is a habit in Japan to take off your shoes before entering a house.
It is a custom in Japan to take off your shoes before entering a house.
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Language Note at MANNER
2
Once one has taken the habit, smoking is very difficult to give up.
Once one has acquired the habit, smoking is very difficult to give up.
Acquire/adopt/develop/get
into a habit
(NOT
take
): ‘He’s developed the unfortunate habit of
biting his fingernails.’
hair
1
He had a black hair and very clear eyes.
He had black hair and very clear eyes.
Her beautiful blond hairs were shining in the sun.
Her beautiful blond hair was shining in the sun.
When you mean ‘a single hair’ or ‘several individual hairs’,
hair
is a countable noun: ‘There was a
long black hair in my soup.’ ‘Stand still and I’ll brush the hairs off your jacket.’
When you mean ‘all the hair on a person’s head’,
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