In my opinion, one is as good as the other. Prior context might favor the countable usage, if for instance other capacities are mentioned.

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. Problem 1: img687.imageshack.us/img687/4138/testnx.jpg It's much easier for us to respond if you actually post the question here. Most of us don't want to go off and start searching other sites. It takes

Hi, I'm a Pole trying to explore the intricacies English This is my first post here so, welcome everybody. And here are my problems. I've done these tests and I even got the key, but there is no freaking way I can understand some answers.

The problem is, as you probably know, almost all Japanese nouns are uncountable. That is not relevant to what you asked, and not really true anyway, Snappy; Japanese merely lacks the article.

The word "the" in your last sentence, which you read aloud, sounded correct. (In the phrase "the article.") I will also use it on my sound file. The boy ate the apple. /fs/1257967220860.mp3.at.ashx

Breakfast usually doesn't require an article. Susan and I had breakfast together this morning. Why don't we talk about it at breakfast tomorrow? Thank you very much. May I ask you another question related to the title? According

Breakfast usually doesn't require an article. Susan and I had breakfast together this morning. Why don't we talk about it at breakfast tomorrow?

CJ, that Wiki article is interesting. I'm actually going to the world premier of a documentary film called Two Spirit on Nov. 21. This was good background reading.

/fs/1257902168000.mp3.at.ashx For me, as a Dutchman, the pronunciation of the definite article 'the' is fairly hard. I tend to pronounce it as , quite much like the Dutch definite article 'de'. How should I pronounce the

Hi, hmm, I don't know... Is my sentence wrong with "the Earth"? I think I've usually seen it with the article, like in "The earth revolves around the sun" (example from Longman Dictionary). Would "Earth revolves