In Indefinite articles^x, Nouns^x

Xess gave some good examples and I ll add what I can The Rolling Stones is the full name of the band in question If the word the were not part of the band s name then it would not be capitalized and you would see it would see it written as the Rolling Stones The word the is a definite article...

I wonder if there is any tactics by means of which you would be returned to life now being more susceptible to small bites to unevenness uneven heart beats of the heart Unevenness is a noun not an adjective so it couldn t be used to describe anything Saying heart beats of the heart sounds too...

Me neither I thought noun adjective would have to be part of it because nobody says an hotel do they On the other hand wait It s coming back to me It s got to do with more than h It has to be unstressed hi or hy That explains why an hotel doesn t fall under the rule On the other hand how many...

Clarifcation CJ So there s a noun adjective factor too huh That s even more complicated The stressed syllable doesn t rule all I guess though hotel seems more ambiuguous that way than Hispanic Don t we tend to say an hallucination more than a hallucination

You have to use indefinite article after half when that word precedes a countable noum Richard ate half a watermelon My old home is about half a mile from here Half a dozen eggs and half a pound of butter please Cecily drank half a bottle of Scotch last night Before personal pronoun half of is...

I agree with paco2004 that the plural fools is needed to agree with supporters I also agree that the indefinite article a is needed in Don t make a fool of me To make a fool of is an idiom which means to cause someone or oneself to look foolish or stupid dictionary com From Understanding Grammar...

Kind s of is regularly used before singular and uncountable nouns one kind of car person bread many kinds of car person bread Kinds of is also used before plural nouns in more informal English these kinds of cars people though you can more formally say cars of this kind Kind of with an indefinite...

Guest wrote Use a if the next word begins with a consonant and an if the next word begins with a vowel A tiger an angel a book etc A historical character This is not completely correct The indefinite article a is used when the following word starts with a consonant sound The indefinite article...

All languages at least those I have some knowledge of exhibit some degree of redundancy they just differ in what those redundancies are Tolstoy wrote the whole of War and Peace without using a definite or indefinite article however when using verbs he had to distinguish between whether the action...

Teo wrote Erin Zale wrote This is an example of when a can be replaced with this in order to better illustrate something such as when telling a story or retelling a past event There s this gnawing in your gut There s a gnawing in your gut There was this man see There was a man see All it does is...