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Believer Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Running down the good old road

0Hi,02br
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00Am I correct in laying out the following explanations?02br
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001. I got these two sentences from online sources like google and NY times.02br
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01i00Look no further Jeff has 01u00a superb coverage02u00 with insights from a VC perspective.02i02br
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01i00The BBC had 01u00superb coverage02u00 of the Soviet Crisis. 02i02br
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00Why, one has the article, whereas one doesn't? I think, eventhough, I don't fully get it is that, as Clive said in one of his responses, once you start to qualify it, it is OK to place 'a'.02br
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002. But if I was using the word like 'knowledge' or 'understanding', some more work is needed like this to make the situation OK for the placement of 'a', I think.02br
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01i00I have01u00 a great understanding02u00 of medieval history.02i02br
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01i00I have 01u00a great understanding02u00 of human nature.02i02br
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00See, now you need to add something behind like 'of medieval history' or 'human nature' and just an act of qualifying with the placement of the right kind of adjective wouldn't do.02br
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003. Now for the uncountable nouns like 'uneasiness', it is a different matter than the above two.02br
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00I think Clive used this sentence in one of his responses.02br
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01i00I had 01u00a lousy uneasiness02u00 in my mind this morning.02i02br
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00Now, even more effort is exerted to make the sentence somewhat distinguishable by type or degree. 02br
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00Now, my position is that it is the nature of the uncountable nouns that a person is using that determines the level of effort needed to make the transformation from countable to uncountable work?02br
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00Right? Wrong?02br
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00Sorry if my questions on articles are too boring. 0-
  
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