(a) Before uncountable nouns: advice, news, water, paper, silver, tea, coffee, honesty, courage, hair, cloth, etc. We cannot say • He gave me an advice. • I took a tea. • Here is some good news for you. But sometimes, uncountable nouns are used in a special way and become countable nouns. Then they take the indefinite article before them. • These ornaments are made of gold. (uncountable) • He won a gold at the Olympics. (a gold medal) • Give me paper for writing. • He read a paper on Films for Children at the conference. (an essay) • The Evening News is a daily paper. (newspaper) (b) Before names of meals. • The family sits for lunch at 10 o’clock. • We usually have our dinner late at night. But when we describe a particular lunch or dinner, etc. we say: • We had a hearty lunch today • They gave us a heavy dinner. For More Material 👇👇👇 English Grammar and English Literature Videos Facebook Page National Educational Academy