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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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He had a great enthusiasm for the work. It's a correct sentence.

He had a enthusiasm for the work. It's not correct.

What are some other nouns that take an 'a' or 'an' when an adjective is used and 'a' or 'am' can't be used when there is no adjective with nouns? Please help.
  

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Whether an adjective is present or not is irrelevant. "A" precedes any word that begins with a consonant sound, and "an" precedes any word that begins with a vowel sound.

— Khoff

  • Whether an adjective is present or not is irrelevant.
  • "A" precedes any word that begins with a consonant sound, and "an" precedes any word that begins with a vowel sound.
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Whether an adjective is present or not is irrelevant. "A" precedes any word that begins with a consonant sound, and "an" precedes any word that begins with a vowel sound.
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khoffWhether an adjective is present or not is irrelevant. "A" precedes any word that begins with a consonant sound, and "an" precedes any word that begins with a vowel sound.
I am taliking about the noun itself. I am asking when can we use nouns such as enthusiasm take as a countable noun or uncountable noun?
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AnonymousHe had a great enthusiasm for the work.
The "a" is optional in my opinion. I would leave it out.
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"enthusiasm" is essentially uncountable, and there are many other abstract nouns which also fall into this category.

If you add "a"/"an" to an uncountable noun, you are temporarily changing it to restrict it to a p
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