In Articles^x, Singular nouns^x

______ For a single person or object, use a (or an) if you aren't saying which person or object you're talking about, but are just talking about any one of them, it doesn't matter which one. (You might not be saying which one because you don't know which one or because you...

Hi,I am wonder if I have to place the definite article before a phrase that has a superative in front or before another word. Normally, I figure a definite noun is necessary if a singular noun/word? is involved, ie I need the best/strongest man to lift this table, but if we have 'men'...

Yes, yes, yes. I know that. Maybe I used the wrong words to express what I was trying to say. Maybe I should have said it as follows:Only an uncountable noun can be used without an article (if it's singular).The formulation in sea uses no article.Therefore it treats sea as...

"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...

Yes I am little confuse now in between articles. Mr. Wordy what if i used sheet and mattress for the 1st time. Article A won't look like repeating or odd ?Its wooden frame supports a bouncy mattress and is completely covered with a silky sheet like a sponge cake layered with cream.And some...

There are times when you have to omit an article.The two you marked are cases where the article should not be used. Both are used as non-count singular nouns.CJ

Hi there, I am from an asian country (korea) and Korean doesn't distinguish countable or uncountable nouns so I have some problem with this concept even though I have been living in english speaking country for 10 years. Now the word "lack" according to the online Longman...

Hi, Should I treat what is in a pair of quotation marks just like an adjective without any difference in terms of whether to place an article or not? Yes. I feel like you have to have an article, 'a' or 'the' or 'an', before a quoted content acting as an adjective for a...

Hi, Should I treat what is in a pair of quotation marks just like an adjective without any difference in terms of whether to place an article or not? I feel like you have to have an article, 'a' or 'the' or 'an', before a quoted content acting as an adjective for a...