In Plurals^x, Indefinite articles^x

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...

1-1 is as good as the other sentences in that set. It does not sound terribly odd, just less common, because native speakers tend to use some (/səm/) as the plural indefinite article. 1-4 is fine for your journal: lakes are just as countable as mountains. I would use during my visit...

Nobody has volunteered yet so let me give it my best shot... 'preparations' : why plural ? shouldn't it be singular if referring to the process of preparing something ? 'place/location/meeting point' : I can't make up my mind here ; also '... of negotiation' or '... for negotiating' can't...

I think your problem in getting a response has been due to the conflation of two different questions: 1) Should I use the English indefinite article in this context? and 2) Is it possible to "be gay for" someone rather than just in general? 1) For the first question, the answer is easy. Skip...

Hello aruzinsky, and I'm really sorry for my misunderstanding. These kinds of problems don't exist in my mother tongue, so I'm afraid I cannot give you any convincing data or analyses. I need other members' help! And, by "extreme," I meant not "uncommon." I don't think that some hyperbolic...

Hello Mr Ruzinsky, let me continue. As you pointed out, Sentences using Bare Plurals, that is common nouns without quantifiers, are vague. It's true. But sentences with definite /indefinite articles, too, have two (or several) usages. For example: And, there's some similarity between...

I presume you mean no indefinite article 'a' either, Elviajero? That leaves us with: (1) unspecified plurals: 'I love cats'; (2) nouns modified by a possessive, demonstrative, quantifier, etc: 'some/my/this/those cat/cats. They are likely to be some other cases that I have forgotten.

Thanks for the reply, Mr. M. I've understood that it is possible to use either the indefinite article or zero article in such a case. But I am still wondering whether you decide to have an indefinite article, does it make much difference in meaning? Or Is it like "Liverpool is leading by 1:0",...