In Uncountable nouns^x, Definite articles^x

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...

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...

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 student....

Yes, yes, yes. I know that. Maybe I used the wrong words to express what I was trying to say. Maybe I should have said it as follows:Only an uncountable noun can be used without an article (if it's singular).The formulation in sea uses no article.Therefore it treats sea as...

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 questions. My e-mails have worked haphazardly after the face-lift in February. I don't...

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 refer to Jack's own washroom.

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 don't think so. Maybe we have to struggle a bit to learn to pronounce some sounds, but once grasped, it is not difficult...

Countable: http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhyNoArticleHere/ggjmr/post.htm As for uncountable, you have already seen them: "Water boils at 100 centigrades (at the "standard" atmospheric pressure)" — here "water" refers to the verty substance, and the sentence...

Hi Ant,In one of the last posts you said: What I wanted to say is, whenever the indefinite article is used, the following noun is either countable or plays a "countable" role.Question 1:Emphasis is on the whenever. This is the same thing I said above. Let me rephrase it again, even...

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 not be...