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Zohar Levi Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

You're a disgrace to the profession.

In the following sentence:

"You're a disgrace to the profession."

disgrace isn't countable. Why is there the article 'a' before it? I see too many uncountable singulars with the article 'a' before them, contrary to grammar rules.
  

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"disgrace isn't countable. It is countable in that sentence. Zohar Levi I see too many uncountable singulars with the article 'a' before them, contrary to grammar rules.

— Mister Micawber

  • "disgrace isn't countable.
  • It is countable in that sentence.
  • Zohar Levi I see too many uncountable singulars with the article 'a' before them, contrary to grammar rules.
  • Many uncountable nouns can be used countably and vice versa.
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Zohar LeviIn the following sentence:"You're a disgrace to the profession."disgrace isn't countable.
It is countable in that sentence.
Zohar Levi I see too many uncountable singulars with the article 'a' before them, contrary to grammar rules.
Many uncountable nouns can be used countably and vice versa.
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Zohar Levidisgrace isn't countable.
Tell that to the authors of these sentences!

Cities like San Francisco have gone from being world-class tourist attractions to national disgraces.
Even Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton reclaimed their status as kingmakers after personal disgraces.
These men were generally of dissolute o
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Okay, here it's clarified that there are two uses, countable and uncountable:

http://www.wordreference.com/definition/disgrace

Here is an interesting discussion about 'it's a shame':

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