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Hello..let me try to answer your question.. An abstract noun (countable/uncountable) may be used with an indefinite article when a certain aspect of the notion denoted by the noun is meant. And the indefinite article expresses a certain kind of quality, emotion, state. AN mostly has a...

______ For a single person or object, use a (or an ) if you aren't saying which person or object you're talking about, but are just talking about any one of them, it doesn't matter which one. (You might not be saying which one because you don't know which one or because you...

Here is a question on which I have been wracking my brain for some time now and finally decided to write in. If we do not use an article before 'uncountable nouns and abstract nouns' why do we say  ' Can you give me a lift to the nearest tube station'                ...

Welcome to EF, mariappan Truth is always an abstrcat noun because you can't put it on the scales and weigh it. It may occasionally be countable, which has nothing to do with being abstract. I may be wrong but I think it's the article (the) that you are concerned with? The article is...

I agree with Avangi's interpretation. Just my two cents. Your above statement is not always correct. History can be an abstract noun for example This is the first time in history the province is hit by such a strong earthquake. (No article) In the history of our company, we have never laid...

Mr. Miclawer, I wasn’t going to expand this pluralization discussion on “ creams” and “wines”. But it really bothered the heck out of me for two reasons. 1) I really wanted to find out if I was really blowing hot air on this subject because of my misunderstanding of this topic, and 2) if...

What was referred to in an earlier reply is an American style of speech, which, to be honest, seems to have been started by the t,v show friends, and has spread widely. e.g 'The Hoff' to describe the guy from Bay Watch, or 'How's the Ross today?' - using a person's name...

Hi, I understand Espeland's question regarding the phrase ' of a hot day ' that specifically restricts the meaning of Evening since there is only one evening in a day; thus, The must be provided such as " The Evening of a Day of Walking" in Les Miserables - by Victor Hugo. In fact, I...

Ok, I think I have to just accept that it is how it is...to me, leaving out the article was so astonishing here because in "evening of a hot day", the evening is defined. And obviously this phenomenon occurs more frequently when the abstract noun is subject or at the beginning of the sentence....

It doesn't work to omit the article with big tower because tower is a concrete noun. It works to omit the with evening because evening is an abstract noun. (You can't actually touch an evening as if it were an object.) Abstract nouns in English very frequently appear without an article,...