By Articles, Abstract nouns

I agree with Avangi's interpretation. Just my two cents. Your above statement is not always correct. History can be an abstract noun for exampleThis is the first time in history the province is hit by such a strong earthquake. (No article)In the history of our company, we have never laid off...

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if there...

What was referred to in an earlier reply is an American style of speech, which, to be honest, seems to have been started by the t,v show friends, and has spread widely. e.g 'The Hoff' to describe the guy from Bay Watch, or 'How's the Ross today?' - using a person's name as...

Hi,I understand Espeland's question regarding the phrase 'of a hot day' that specifically restricts the meaning of Evening since there is only one evening in a day; thus, The must be provided such as "The Evening of a Day of Walking" in Les Miserables - by Victor Hugo. In fact, I have seen...

Ok, I think I have to just accept that it is how it is...to me, leaving out the article was so astonishing here because in "evening of a hot day", the evening is defined. And obviously this phenomenon occurs more frequently when the abstract noun is subject or at the beginning of the sentence....

It doesn't work to omit the article with big tower because tower is a concrete noun. It works to omit the with evening because evening is an abstract noun. (You can't actually touch an evening as if it were an object.) Abstract nouns in English very frequently appear without an article,...

Dear Yankee,Since you searched for 'an advice', the hit count is different. Google "advices" and you should find ~6,000,000 hits. The point that I have been trying to make is the countable/uncountable nature of an abstract noun. So not only the use of articles but also pluralization would be...

Hi again, If some uncountable abstract nouns can become countable depending on context and some cannot (i.e., forever stay uncountable), then what is the trick or the rule of thumb that I can use to separate them ? I'm inclined to think there is no such trick. That's why learning a language is...

Hello Clive,Thank you for your input. However, I now feel uneasy. If some uncountable abstract nouns can become countable depending on context and some cannot (i.e., forever stay uncountable), then what is the trick or the rule of thumb that I can use to separate them ? If Google hits certainly...

Shouldn't there be a source, from which we, ESL learners, can learn abstract nouns' nuances?ThanksHoa ThaiGoogle for 'abstract nouns' and you should be able to find whatever you want to know about abstract nouns.