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Scaffold/Scaffolding

English Language Learners Asked on February 10, 2021

Can both scaffold and scaffolding be used about the scaffold/scaffolding as a whole an not just the platforms? And the same with the platforms? I’m only interested in the American definition of it.

He climbed up the scaffold/scaffolding.

Afraid to fall down, the man lay flat on the scaffold/scaffolding, holding onto it with everything he’d got.

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"Scaffold" seems like a single discrete structure, a thing. "Scaffolding" is more like a mass noun, so it brings to mind stuff.

I might rent a scaffold to paint my house, but Notre Dame is currently covered in scaffolding.

Answered by joseph_morris on February 10, 2021

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