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Moon7296 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

a relationship/ relationship

I googled with the word good relationship.
Many of the sentences searched included "a" good relationship when there's just a few sentences including without an article "a."

Is there any difference between no article and article in front of "good relationship?"

1. Secret garden made Mary a bright, happy child and taught her the importance of good relationship.
2. Secret garden made Mary a bright, happy child and taught her the importance of a good relationship.
  

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The word is normally countable. Your #1 seems odd to me.

— Mister Micawber

  • The word is normally countable.
  • Your #1 seems odd to me.
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The word is normally countable. Your #1 seems odd to me.
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The secret garden made Mary a bright, happy child and taught her the importance of good relationships.
moon7296Is there any difference between no article and article in front of "good relationship?"
I can't think of how to write it without "a" if you want the singular. To my ear, it's not r
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Okay. It's very difficult to understand when the word relationship is used as an uncountable noun. Is it difficult to explain with an example?
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moon7296It's very difficult to understand when the word relationship is used as an uncountable noun.
I suspect that's because it's hardly ever used as an uncountable noun.

It might occur without a determiner in an expression like "that kind of relationship", but that's probably more because of the tendency of prepositions to suppress articles.
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CalifJim the tendency of prepositions to suppress articles.
Eureka!
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