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Englishnewbie Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

infrastructure

Hello,

We now have a well-established infrastructure.

We now have well-established infrastructure.

Infrastructure seems like uncountable/countable.

Do I need to use "a" here? If so, why?

Thanks/
  

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" is correct and can stand alone as a sentence. " doesn't sound quite right and cannot stand alone as a sentence like this. There would need to be additional words added to it.

— Anonymous

  • " is correct and can stand alone as a sentence.
  • " doesn't sound quite right and cannot stand alone as a sentence like this.
  • There would need to be additional words added to it.
  • " By simply including the article you avoid having to add all those extra words.
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"We now have a well-established infrastructure." is correct and can stand alone as a sentence.

"We now have well-established infrastructure." doesn't sound quite right and cannot stand alone as a sentence like this. There would need to be additional words added to it. For example: "We now have well-established infrastructure and funding to support all of our many departments and projec
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It all depends on the context. Compare these:

We need to invest more in infrastructure. (general, uncountable,)
We have an infrastructure that is better than the competition's. (specific, thus uses an article)
The infrastructure in Africa has slowly been improving over the past decade.(specific)
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englishnewbieDo I need to use "a" here?
It doesn't sound right without "a" because we usually change an uncountable to a countable when we modify it with another word (or more).

CJ
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