By Articles, Uncountable nouns

Thank you.I think it would be OK to speak of a pen that he found which belonged to his friend, Joe, like this:I found a (one) pencil of a student. -- If the situation is that only studnents use pen (unbelievable as it sounds) and he don't know whose pen it is.I found the pencil of a student....

Hi,I think I found out the word 'wailing' is an uncountable noun.If that is so, then is this correct?A feartul wailing was heard.He heard a fearful wailing.I would be more comfortable if I saw something like this:He heard a fearful wailing of a dog,or,He heard a fearful wailing of the dog...

Thank you. What threw me off was the non-capitalization of the first letter of the word 'cemetery'. A common word plus non-capitalization could make it necessary to have an article, at least for the sake of the common noun, at least to me. Can you tell me what the reason for that ...

1. It may be unwise to say that something can be done to all proper nouns in English because there seem to be so many exceptions to every rule. However, using a and the with proper nouns in certain contexts is normal. The of-genitive - or of structure - or whatever you prefer to call it often...

Hi,1. I seem to sense a correspondence between a proper noun and uncountable noun in terms of their ability to accompany English articles. Is it unfounded or baseless? Case in point: name of a street which normally doesn't have an article in front of it: ..., a pastor of the influential Park...

Hi, How would you justify the use of hyphens to denote what seems to be a noun? I wouldn't try to justify it. At best, it's extremely casual, and at worst it's just lazy and unstructured English.I think this string of words can be thought as a big noun made of little...

Hi,How would you justify the use of hyphens to denote what seems to be a noun? I think this string of words can be thought as a big noun made of little parts. Could it be in quotations without hyphens and would it make a difference or no difference? I think a problem might result if put...

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...

I don't get e-mail notifications from most of my posts on this forum but I saw your response as I was browsing what is going on at the moment. Please forgive me if I don't always respond to your questions. My e-mails have worked haphazardly after the face-lift in February. I don't...

Whoops! That's true. Or is it? I wonder what I was thinking. To my ear, in sea (without any article) makes sea uncountable, and my brain doesn't accept sea as uncountable, so I feel an article must be added. (Given that adding the doesn't change an uncountable to countable, I...