Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from  07.12.2014 16:36   
   about cat and dog.   
      
    AH> I have some ideas on the subject which I think will be easier for   
    AH> my friends here to understand when I've organized them into a   
    AH> logical sequence... and that will take me a day or two. Meanwhile I   
    AH> see that what is obvious to a native speaker of English may not be   
    AH> to everyone. We speak of flour & sugar & meat because that's the   
    AH> way we were taught. The Russians speak of countable & uncountable   
    AH> nouns because that's the way *they* were taught. And as classroom   
    AH> co-ordinator my job is to put all this stuff together into a lesson   
    AH> plan. ;-)   
      
   Using logic and system is very useful. "The cat" is a class of animals. "A   
   cat" is one cat. "Cat" is meat of a cat. In other words "cat" can be both   
   countable and uncountable. ;-) Meat is uncountable like milk and is used   
   without any article.   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2014   
      
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
    * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)