Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE TH Present Simple Tense - In case of preceded by the third person singular, the verb that changes in form is Verb to be and Verb to have - In case we add

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

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

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

Yes, the definite article can be used with nouns of both types, "Pour the water onto the tea" – "water" and "tea" are pure uncountable nouns. I have been told that the accent of Russian is such that Russians have 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