By Genders, Uncountable nouns

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Most native speakers (except for linguists and teachers of ESL) never think about "countable" and "uncountable" nouns. I had never heard those terms until I started tutoring ESL students (I was a volunteer; I never had formal training to teach.) A young child might make the mistake of saying...

Anonymous wrote:I came upon a sentence with this phrase and have been wondering why the writer didn't place any articles in front of the ones italicized when the dictionary said they are countables. I thought countables must have articles regardless of the grammatical situations they are in. Was...