Sometimes I hear people say: 'I've a good news for you'. Is the sentence grammatically incorrect? I know 'news' is an uncountable noun so you shouldn't use 'a' in front of it, but I also know that ...

A noun is a thing, e.g. cat, room, exam. Most of the time, we can talk about how many of these things we have: Bobby has three cats at home! It’s amazing how many rooms are empty in our school. I have ...

Very recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that “money doesn’t grow on trees” during his speech to the nation where he defended his economic reforms. If the popular saying is changed to “Monies ...

English language learners quite often make mistakes in using articles (a/an, the). Their writings are characterised by overuse and under-use of articles and it could be due to factors such as the ...

If someone terribly damages your belongings such as a car and a laptop, angrily you may say, ‘He did a lot of damages to my car.’ There is a problem with the expression because ‘damage’ in this ...

What exactly are countable nouns and how are they different from other nouns? Countable nouns are exactly what you think they are with no exceptions. They are the names of things that you can count.