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Hi, I have trouble knowign whether I should put articles for situations like below or not. 1. Classroom management styles can be characterized along two dimensions: type (why not 'the type'??) of control ... and degreee (the degree OK??) of involvement ... I feel the word 'degree'...

"church" meaning the building is countable and takes an article ("I live opposite a church"). "church" can be uncountable, with no article, in the sense I illustrated before. "state" is normally countable. "the state" and "the...

Thank you, Avangi. In my previous post, I should have used third-person verb tenses, 'sounds' and 'gives' -- proper subject-verb agreement wasn't made due to my carelessness. Going back to your request for examples of cases where I would feel something in quotes could...

Hi, It has been known to me that a gerund can function as a noun and should or likely to be treated more as an uncountable noun than a countable noun. Mixing of sugar and flour makes this dough ... If you want to be specific, I think you could write: The mixing of sugar and flour...

Thanks Kooyeen. I know it is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG to use "software" as a countable noun. We can certainly find a lot of reasons why "software" should be uncountable. However, I just hate I have to say "a piece of software" or a "software package" every time...

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase, usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective. A relative clause may be added. The noun itself may be a gerund. If the element after the candidate for a...

Hi, very interesting... I wouldn't say you always have to add the article. But I'm not sure, so it would be interesting to know if in a sentence like... Candidates must have (a) good knowledge of Physics the article can be left out. If so, then you can say that the article can be added when...

Hi, I am thinking of the following uncountable nouns in terms of their types as seem to note in the third sentences of each set of question sentences and can you check all the following are possible? As to all three cases, the words 'terror', 'mercy' and 'disaster' seem to be suitable...

Hi, In the post titled "Uncountable noun that is preceded by the "a", I think Mister M noted, as part of his response, some uncountable nouns like 'attendance' or 'support' ,which are mentioned by victorycounty, don't necessarily become countable and it is often the speaker's conception that...

Hi, Maybe I really shouldn't delve too deeply into the topic of changing an uncountable noun into a countable noun but since I see them every so often in print, I want to ask you. A person or two (think one person is Yankee) seem to have said that I have to find the words or things that...