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GG, your post is just to the point. It's just that I do consider such nouns countable when they're used the way you showed. The very specifying of special properties makes these nouns refer to an instance of happiness or ecstasy, thus making them countable. What I wanted to say is,...

This may be too much information, but we do use articles with abstract, non-count nouns to say what type. He experienced a happiness never before experienced by man. (What sort of happiness? One that was never experienced before.) She experienced the ecstacy that comes to those who have worked...

Well, I don't know what you don't know. So show me what it is.

This is a apple. You mean a apple means one apple. So that means I cannot write: This is a one apple. Because such sentence will be redundant.Question 1: Am I correct?I have eaten only a single apple. Here single also means one but I think it's a correct sentence. Question 2: Why is so?I...

No. This is a very general question actually. Try posting some sentences the use of articles wherein you don't understand...

Is it compulsory to use articles, a, an, and the, with only countable nouns? If what I'm saying is true then what is the reason for such a compulsion? And does it also mean no matter wherever a countable noun comes in a sentence you have to use a article with it?

Thank you, CalifJim and Mr. M. No, no. I wasn't trying to put anyone who answers my question in a dubious position as having to prove or disprove anyone in an excellent standing like Mr. M. I was trying to find an answer to this question, which I consider important to know the answer to.You...

Hi,Can anyone please tell me why Mr. M said what he said here in a post named 'article'? When you have something specific as payment of 400 dollars, why is the post-referencing an uncountable noun isn't as attractive as the post-referencing a countable noun or isn't right as the...

"church" meaning the building is countable and takes an article ("I live opposite a church"). "church" can be uncountable, with no article, in the sense I illustrated before. "state" is normally countable. "the state" and "the...

Not at will, no. You can only do this with uncountable nouns. "Nation" is always a countable noun, so you cannot write, for example, "Developed nation is ..." to refer to the entire class of developed nations. You would instead say "Developed nations are...". On...