By Articles, Nouns

"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...

Ok, but still one last thing is quite confusing to me.Because I found this passage on wikipedia:"Common nouns may be capitalized when used as names for the entire class of such things, e.g. what a piece of work is Man. French often capitalizes such nouns as l'État (the state) and...

No, a noun doesn't become a "non-countable" noun because there are too many to count! Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to say "A man walked into a bar." It's simply a grammatical distinction. Furniture is a good example. I need to buy furniture for my new house. Not...

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...

Nouns when used as names for the entire class of such things, can be written without an article at will?Then can developed nation be written without an article if it refer to all of them?

This is wrong. It should be either "...in a/the developed nation" or "...in developed nations". "Well-being" is an uncountable noun and so does not need an article. (Also, this is not a sentence.)

Hello Anon, "Sherrie" is a proper noun; "employee" is an ordinary noun; "is" is a verb; "a" is an indefinite article. Best wishes, MrP

Hi,I am confused as to when you would use what I would call a "proper name" form and when use what I would call a "plural" form.If you have any inquiries regarding Teacher's/Veteran's benefits, please inquire within.If you happen to write a sentence using the words...

One of my collegues sent an e-mail earlier this morning, but I think he made a mistake by not using an article in front of the noun. Please correct me if I am wrong." I could be mistaken, but I don't recall seeing production schedule distributed from you." I, on the other hand,...

Mother dragged a screaming Phillip to bed. How do you explain (to an TEFL student) the use of a (article) in this case. I can`t find a rule. Is screaming a gerund or a verbal noun? It`s functioning as an adjective! Thanks, Solatedo.