of a subject is a piece of research on it . Recent stud ies suggest that as many as 5 in 1000 new

Hi, I think it is a common knowledge that some uncountable nouns can be changed to countable nouns (are susceptable to such transformations) if they are made into types. Does that mean if we could place the phrase "a type" and "a

Thank you so much, but I asked the question because I believe I asked a similar question in the past and a guru have answered it that the indefinite article does go with a phrase similar to 'other activity' in the original example

However, what you have made a mistake with in my humble opinion is that the indefinite article isn't used with uncountable nouns. The defintite article (the) can be used with all nouns. Yes, yes, yes. I know that. Maybe I used the wrong words

I welcome your further comments. 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

Madhulk, I think you are right. Washroom is an uncountable noun, therefore indefinite articles a or an cannot modify it. Of course, Jack would not go to his neighbour's home to use his washroom. So, the definite article the would be used to

Let me rephrase it again, even indefinite article the is used with countable nouns or the nouns which are acting as counting nouns . What's "indefinite article the"? Sorry, I meant to say definite article . As the meaning of my

Let me rephrase it again, even indefinite article the is used with countable nouns or the nouns which are acting as counting nouns . What's "indefinite article the"? So it means if some non-countable noun is acting as a

Ant, you mean that even article the is used with countable nouns or the nouns which are acting as countable nouns. Yes, but it can be used with uncountable nouns as well. Countable (along the lines of GG's example): " The happiness that

GG, your post is just to the point. It's just that I do consider such nouns countable when they're used the way you showed. The very specifying of special properties makes these nouns refer to an instance of happiness or ecstasy, thus