How much abstract an abstract noun is?

Hi, I was reading some resource of grammar on internet and came across this sentence.
"Because of a confusion with that type of sentence, it is a curiously common error to put a comma in the absolute construction"
Should not we use "beacause of confusion..."? Confusion is an abstract noun and can't take 'a' before it.

Similarly for sentences like:
"what a beautiful day!"  'A' refers to day right? so it's okay to use it here.
and for "what a nuisance!" Nuisace, can it be counted? If no then why use 'A'?
and for many more sentences similar to "what a mystery!", "what a beauty!" Or is it that my understanding is wrong and we should use "what nuisance!", "what msytery!" , "what beauty!".

Hope to get some comments soon.

This is a good example of what seemed to be the irregularity of the grammar rules.

As Clive has already demonstrated, Nuisnace is a countable noun but there are cases they can be used as uncountable.

In downtown San Francisco, public drunkenness, littlering and beggars are becoming some of the major nuisances to tourists and locals alike. Sometimes, it's too much nuisnace for even me to tolerate.  In this example, "nuisance"  is used in both countable and uncountable form. Confusion is an uncountable noun and thus can not take an "a".

Hello Mr. Believer,

I was savoring your comment for a few minutes and I have this thought.

 

“It is too  much of a nuisance for even me to tolerate”.   This sounds totally correct. 

 

 But "a nuisance" is what I am stuck on and I think the interpretation of the scenario became individual. In the early part of my example, I described several nuisances (plural). Then I summed up my statement by saying “ It is too much nuisance for even me to tolerate” , where “nuisance” in my mind was intended to be as a collective variable noun but in non-countable form.  So I didn't apply a preposition phrase " of a".  My train of thought was sucha that when we intend to use a variable noun, we use “much” instead of “many”.  I know people say it all the time, “ to much of a hassle”, “ to much of a bother” and etc…   Now, please enlighten me. Isn’t  “too much of “a” something(variable / non-countable) contradictory of the grammar rule.  Also, is " too  much nuisance even for me to tolerate " a wrong context as well as grammar and meaning?  Hope you don't mind my inquiry.

 

Oh, incidentally I heard people say "it's too much trouble"; never "too much of a trouble". That's the kind of irregularity I wanted to point out. That's all.

Hi,

I don't mind at all. I will try to respond to your inquiry.

Let me try. I think, in the expression "too much of "a" something," the phrase "too much" is functioning as a quantifying phrase of a singular definite noun (in the sentence above, it will be the word "something."). 

My Q:

Can we say/write  the phrase "a something" or only can use the word "something" without an article "a"?

Hi,
hi,what is use an abstract noun in a sentence
Please tell me an abstract noun. Then I can help you to use it in a sentence.

Clive