In Nouns^x, Articles^x, Uncountable nouns^x

Hi, I think that sometimes the pronoun "one" is not ok for some reason, but... Don't take the blue book, take the red one. <-- Ok. This is a normal sentence. There is no reason why you should consider British English better than (the) American one. <-- Suspicious for...

Hi, Do you any uncountable noun that can not be of different types, thus making it unlikely or impossible to have an indenitive article in front of it? How could one check if a certain uncountable noun can be made (or is made) of types or not?

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 sort" before such a noun, then we would have a...

There are a great many chemical compounds called salts, but I doubt you would want very many of them on your food. And I doubt that people would want to ask for that uncountable "table salt" specifically by its chemical name NaCl whenever they wanted some. _____ All substances...

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 sentence. Normally, I think the word 'other' is...

Yes, it's odd way not to use "a". Indeed, "any=some" implies itself plural noun to be used. So the difference in translation some of constructions in English seems to be slightly smoothed between two meanings you mentioned above. At least it's so in my language.

You can do that too, but it is not common, it's only used sometimes for emphasis. It's easy to build odd sentences that way, so I personally prefer to avoid using it that way, as a learner. When talking about one thing, using the article "a" (or "an") is the common...

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'                ...

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 know whose pen it is. I found the pencil of a...

Hi, I think I found out the word 'wailing' is an uncountable noun. If that is so, then is this correct? A feartul wailing was heard. He heard a fearful wailing. I would be more comfortable if I saw something like this: He heard a fearful wailing of a dog, or, He heard a fearful wailing of...