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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

article before certain nouns

Hi,
I have the noun/word 'correspondence' and it is known by me as an uncountable noun but also, a source has indicated that it is 'a Noun', which could mean it can have the article 'a'. I have seen several cases of this. Does this mean a noun can have an uncountable nature and at the same time have an article before it???

I have this noun 'news' and it is known to me that it only takes 'the' when used to refer to a news program that broadcast news. Does that mean we can't have 'a news' like in "I heard a news that gave today's weather report"?
  

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Anonymous Does that mean we can't have 'a news' like in "I heard a news that gave today's weather report"? Use of "news" like this is incorrect.

— RayH

  • Anonymous Does that mean we can't have 'a news' like in "I heard a news that gave today's weather report"?
  • Use of "news" like this is incorrect.
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AnonymousDoes that mean we can't have 'a news' like in "I heard a news that gave today's weather report"?
Use of "news" like this is incorrect.
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AnonymousHi,
I have the noun/word 'correspondence' and it is known by me as an uncountable noun but also, a source has indicated that it is 'a Noun', which could mean it can have the article 'a'. I have seen several cases of this. Does this mean a noun can have an uncountable nature and at the same time have an article before it???

I have this noun 'news' and
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Anonymousit is known by me as ...
Should be: I know it as ...
Anonymousit is known to me that
Should be: I know that ...
CJ
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Hi,

What can we use before something else not for noun like : 'I am going to learn ------- new things'.Tell

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