"a "with uncountables
Dear native speakers, I know that almost any uncountable noun CAN be used with the article "a" when a certain characteristic of the noun is emphasised. Beauty will save the world, but she has a certain beauty I can't describe.
But there are nouns that can't take "a" even if a certain ascpect of the noun is emphasised " I love warm weather (not a weather) We need cold water (not a cold water). My question is, could you please enumearate nouns like water and weather that can't take "a" even if when preceeded by an adjective. Thanks.
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Beauty is a characteristic. Such abstract nouns usually can be specified. g.
- Beauty is a characteristic.
- Such abstract nouns usually can be specified.
- g.
- a beauty beyond belief.
- Water is not a characteristic, but a substance.
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Beauty is a characteristic. Such abstract nouns usually can be specified. e.g. a beauty beyond belief.
Water is not a characteristic, but a substance. That is the difference. Other non-count substances (furniture, luggage, baggage, rice, salt, pepper, meat, food, blood, oil, etc.) are like "water."
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