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   Hi, Anton Shepelev! -> Alexander Koryagin   
   I read your message from 05.10.2023 20:10   
      
    AK>> I learned recently that an English pie can be countable and   
    AK>> uncountable.   
    AS> Absolutely.   
    AK>> I understand uncountable ice cream, but I don't understand   
    AK>> uncountable pie. ;-)   
      
    AS> In English, they are the same. Both `cream' and `pie' can denote   
    AS> the substance, rather than the thing it constitutes. In /Dasee   
    AS> Macabre/ Steven Kings quotes an old radio show where the jealous   
    AS> dentist locked an adulterer in his dental chair and "let out some   
    AS> of lover-boy". Yikes! but uncountable.   
      
   The absence of "a" article after "of" is another different English song. :)   
   You can read some of it here:   
   https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/313276/is-there-a-so   
   id-reference-rule-on-when-not-to-put-article-after-of   
      
   or here:   
   https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104910/zero-article-   
   fter-of-in-a-change-of-place   
      
    AS> For more pleasant example, heed Rosemary Clooney sing "I will give   
    AS> you candy!" in /Come on a-My House/.   
      
   I heard that in songs the Grammar rules are not necessary at all. The rhyme is   
   more important. ;-)   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2023   
      
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