I don’t understand why there is no ‘the’ before ‘sell territory’. Yesterday, two of our most important indicators moved into sell territory . Abstract nouns do not take an article, and sell territory is an abstract (compound) noun. The

Hi Avangi, If my thoughts are still coherent, the discussion was on using article with abstract nouns , not quantifiers which if get mixed in, can get very messy for the learners. However, I believe we are at least communiating on the same

Here are my thoughts on abstract nouns. "Pain", "thought" and "feeling", and many more like them are intangible nouns which we can't really count as a unit, like apples or oranges. But we can certainly feel them

but in your examples there's always something preceeding pleasure either the or my or a ... and the dictionary says that pleasure can be uncountable... which means that it can take NO article of any kind, no pronoun, nothing... I

Hi, I'll give you my opinion. 1. a (0), b(0) 2. a (0), b(the) 3. a(0) 4. a(0) 1. Communication, learning and teaching can all be seen as abstract nouns which take no article if used in a general sense.

I am not a native speaker of English. My mother tongue is Japanese, and we have no Japanese word class that functions like the English definite article "the." Therefore, the indefinite article is one of the most difficult word classes to

"What I believe I can devote myself to to leave an ever memorable trace in the history is through becoming an automobile designer, the only dream of mine. " Wrong. Plain wrong. The sentence was probably written by someone whose native

In passing, I read in a book this sentence "he took a strange joy in ..." Do you think "strange" collocates nicely with "joy" ? Also, would you concur with the author as to the use of the indefinite article in

Hi, I always get confused with a sentence where I have to deal with an abstract noun. For example, I am not sure whether I should use an article before 'time' in the following sentences. Both sentences sound right to me. 1. In a

Hi CB. The abstract noun sans article is the key I was missing. I knew that "memorization" alone wouldn't use the article but wasn't sure how to dispose of "of facts." Thanks.