this answer answered Nov 4 '11 at 3:54 Mahnax 6,734 3 15 41 feedback up vote 6 down vote Rather than being an uncountable noun, document is indeed countable. It is used as an example of a countable noun in keio.ac.jp/~hjb/countable.uncountable.html and in 1-language.com/englishcourse . Thus "A lot of documents were