Uncountability of “blot, setting and star”?
It was a dark and stormy
night,” begins Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1830 novel “Paul Clifford,” which goes on to invoke torrential rain, gusting wind, guttering lamplight, and rattling rooftops: weather as plot, setting, star, and supporting cast of this is, by broad consensus, the worst sentence in the history of English literature.
In my knowledge plot, setting and star are countable nouns, so they each add an a prior or a after, but clearly they don’t in this paragraph, so what happened?
What does it mean to a “coordinated” student to learn a new skill?
It is not always possible to use a preposition after several articles. Articles are not necessarily required. As is one example, when it introduces a role, or a way of regarding something. What are the other examples like President, President, or as payment, as punishment?
