There may be situations in which the plural s is needed but English would probably manage without it quite well. In Swedish, another Germanic language, nouns have five or six declensions. In one of them nouns have the same indefinite singular and

Hi Knoff. Thanks for replying. I'm just wondering whether I used an indefinite article appropriately.

Actually, we are conditioned to believe that the indefinite article "a, an" is used to talk about a general situation and people are in a muddle when someone uses it for a specific condition. First, we should understand that language is

CB, you always are very good at finding the proverbial "exception which proves the rule". Actually, the answer probably should have excluded "the indefinite article", because it is often used. The question, then, is when

The indefinnite article and numbers are not used with non-countable nouns, such as advice. So, he has a good knowledge of English is wrong? CB

The indefinnite article and numbers are not used with non-countable nouns, such as advice.

"He gave me good advice" Instead of "He gave me a good advice" ? Is there any explanations on why you can't apply indefinite article on some singular nouns? Thank you

Hi. Please help. 1. Could we have put the indefinite article "the" in front of what suppose (could be) to be part of a definition? I think you can see there is a post-modification that restricts the noun "money"

Hi. I think when you put the an indefinite article "a" or "an" in front of a gerund, I think you are making it countable. eg, a tightening of requirements Do you think we could we apply this to almost all gerunds

So, when talking about modelling hydrodynamics, we would use "a hydrodynamic model"? Yes. our answer has lead me to another question: is it "...indefinite articles which should...", or "...indefinite articles that