By Nouns, Indefinite articles

Hi, Why no article there? Soup is (a???) liquid food made of ... Some nouns, like 'food', can be both countable and uncountable. eg You need food in order to live. Meat and vegetables are two different foods. In your example, you can omit or include the article, depending on which of...

Thanx Benita. You made my life a bit easy. I had asked this question from many people on this forum but no one ever answered me. I don't know why; may be it wasn't much important to people. Whatever, thanx a lot. But stiil there is a problem. If you visit the following page, you'll see a list of...

Thank you. For a definitional use purpose, i think, one would normally use an indefinite article for countable nouns. I check the Collins/Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary and it gave this definition of a hamburger: A hamburger is minced meat which has been shaped into a flat...

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns:I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the...

Can anyone answer those questions categorically? I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the need (necesssity??) to have the indefinite article "a" and I think Mr. M said to the effect that in many...

Thank you. As you seem to have said that in many case the speaker has the options and you gave several examples. I think. Now, can you give me some examples of those cases where putting an indefinite article (ie, "a") in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS would not be valid or be frown upon? Thank...

Hi, Here the words "distrust" and "understanding" are uncountables, I believe. They have a distrust of authorities. (You can put the indefinite article "a" there because you are tallking about "a kind of" distrust as being limited by the phrase "of authorities." Without the subsequent phrase...

Thank you, Mr. M. It helped me a lot. Would you say the underlined part is a restrictive phrase or a modifying phrase. If it is either one, then would you kindly tell me what is the difference between a modifying phrase and a restrictive phrase? A beauty of the Princess of Bigman's land The...

Thank you. (I think I should have said "gentlemen and ladies" rather than "guys and gals" in the previous post of this thread.) Can you kindly tell me if my further extrapolation on the matters being discussed is valid? Here the words "distrust" and "understanding" are uncountables, I...

Thank you, You and Cool Breeze, Let me, if you may permit me to do so, ask both of you (or any others willing) categorically. 1. Are the both sentences below correct? We need someone with the good knowledge of Chinese. We need someone with a good knowledge of Chinese. 2. Are the sentences...