By Plurals, Indefinite articles

Believer wrote: One thing that really baffles me is the issue of when it is allowed to use an indefinite article in front of uncountable nouns especially when the uncountable nouns have some what seem to be restrictive elements behind. Ex, a nature of human being (Why not, the nature of...

Hi BelieverIn all your examples, of is not a part of the co-called of-genitive and thus does not require the.Knowledge is an exceptional uncountable noun, it can take the indefinite article although it is never used in the plural:He has a working knowledge of English.I have a poor knowledge of...

Some has a variety of uses. As an indefinite article (like a/an) it modifies plural count nouns and mass nouns.Some boys walked down the street.Some cold beer would taste great right now.I would say some examples and some material. In some cases, the context or knowledge of the world may be...

Only 1, 3 and 5 are acceptable. The rest are incorrect. 4 would be OK without the indefinite article. For example, "I have but little clothes to wear."

A and an signal that the noun modified is indefinite, referring to any member of a group. These indefinite articles are used with singular nouns when the noun is general; the corresponding indefinite quantity word some is used for plural general nouns. The rule is: a + singular noun...

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...

*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...

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...

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...

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...