The indefinnite article and numbers are not used with non-countable nouns, such as advice. So, he has a good knowledge of English is wrong? CB

The indefinnite article and numbers are not used with non-countable nouns, such as advice.

"Many a great ..." If this is correct, when do you use this? Many a is possible with a singular countable noun : "It's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one." - The House of the Rising Sun (trad.)

Hi Mach 2, thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums! We like to talk about countable and uncountable nouns. (Sometimes a given noun may act one way at one time and the other way at another time.) Both types could involve scalar quantities.

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

When we use a singular noun to refer to many instances of the thing we are referring to (or to use for the entire class of such things), it may be uncountable and countable still depending on the definition we use of the word in question?

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

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',

CalifJim wrote: since laughter is an uncountable noun, unlike evening . Unlike evening ? Wow! In that sentence I understand evening as uncountable! (evening-ness?) Aren't all singular nouns in English uncountable when used without articles?

since laughter is an uncountable noun, unlike evening . Unlike evening ? Wow! In that sentence I understand evening as uncountable! (evening-ness?) Aren't all singular nouns in English uncountable when used without articles? CJ