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Magda Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Musical notation

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00Should I use "a" before "musical notation" as in: "She has never learnt musical notation"?02br
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0 Do a search at Google with02br
00 "musical notation"02br
00 I did. 02br
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00 Also, see the U here:02br
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00 as you see, it may be U(ncountable).0240hrefhttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=54250&dict=CALD
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1sup00While Marious may be figuring out a way to give you a good answer, I'd like to offer you this:02sup02br
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01sup00For the same reason, you don’t say “he never learned (a) French in school”. But, you say “he never learned (a) word of French in school”. 02sup02br
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10Do a search at Google with12br
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10 I did. 12br
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10 Also, see the U here:12br
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10 as you see, it may be U(ncountable).12br
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10Yes, but it may be countable as well 0
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01cite10Goodman12cite11sup10While Marious may be figuring out a way to give you a good answer, I'd like to offer you this:12sup12br
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11sup10For the same reason, you don’t say “he never learned (a) French in school”. But, you say “he never learned (a) word of French in school”. 12sup
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0 Marius02br
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00Speaking seriously, I found this sentence in Wikipedia: "Many of these 01b00notations 02b00seek to improve upon traditional notation by using a "chromatic staff " ...."02br
00That's why I am confused. I don't know when "notation" can be treated as a countable and uncountable nouns.02br
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00Best wish
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0 You must do searches which are directly related to your situation. 02br
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00 Search at Google for:02br
01font00"learn musical notation"02br
00 "learn a musical notation"02br
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