indefinite article

English translation: no

14:14 May 31, 2012
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Journalism / newspaper
English term or phrase: indefinite article
Greetings,

Does the sentence below require indefinite article "a" before the adjective "huge"? Many thanks,

".. and there is huge Arab racism in this country."

Mehmet


Source text : "Relations between X and Arabs are so weak, already throughout our education system we always had this Arab racism underneath the curriculum; it's always there and there is huge Arab racism in this country."
Mehmet Hascan
Ireland
Local time: 09:14
Selected answer:no
Explanation:
but imo "a huge amount of" sounds better
Selected response from:

Jo Macdonald
Spain
Local time: 10:14
Grading comment
Thank you all very much for your help.
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4 +8no
Jo Macdonald


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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +8
no


Explanation:
but imo "a huge amount of" sounds better

Jo Macdonald
Spain
Local time: 10:14
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you all very much for your help.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, Jo. I completely agree with you :-)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  katsy
2 mins

agree  Tony M: 'racism', like most other -ism's, is non-countable, and so doesn't usually take an indefinite article
5 mins

agree  Jack Doughty
10 mins
  -> Thanks folks

agree  jccantrell: Agree with Jo, the way it is written originally sounds foreign.
22 mins

agree  Ioanna Daskalopoulou
36 mins

agree  Armorel Young: as Tony says, racism - like milk or money or happiness - is uncountable, so you can have "some" racism but you can't have "a" racism.
36 mins

agree  Charles Davis
40 mins

agree  EnglishEditor
1 day 20 hrs
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