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   Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   AK> The absence of "a" article after "of" is another   
   AK> different English song.   
      
   This need not be a specific subject in English.  The general   
   rule for the indefinite artcile applies -- that it is never   
   used with uncountable nouns, and `of' often makes the noun   
   uncountable by denoting a part taked out of the whole. The   
   whole is thus no longer atomic, invivisible, but is just   
   substance: "a piece of manuscript."   
      
   AS>> For more pleasant example, heed Rosemary Clooney sing   
   AS>> "I will give you candy!" in /Come on a-My House/.   
   AK>   
   AK> I heard that in songs the Grammar rules are not   
   AK> necessary at all. The rhyme is more important. ;-)   
      
   I do not believe in poetic license (uncountable).  The term   
   is of recent origin, and invented, first, to save   
   grammarians analysis of some correct yet unusual sytax, and   
   second -- to let modern writers defend their sloppy English.   
   Bethink thyself how many examples in old grammar manuals are   
   in verse, including Milton's and Shakespeare's, for example:   
      
      https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14006/14006-h/14006-h.htm   
      
   Rosemary Clooney was a white American songstress of Italian   
   origin.  Flourishing in the 1950s, she was recorded by major   
   U.S. labels, which must then respect their audience of   
   conservative white Americans, very unlike black R&B singers,   
   who were allowed to express themselves with peculiar   
   grammaer in thick New-Orleans patois:   
      
               She don't fancy to dancin'   
               And she don't care 'bout movie shows   
               She don't fancy to dancin'   
               And she don't care 'bout movie shows   
               She just love her daddy   
               And she go wherever he goes   
               ------------------------------------   
               Love don't love nobody   
               ------------------------------------   
               I wanna walk you home.   
               Please, let me walk you home.   
               I wants(!) to walk you home.   
               Please, let me walk you home.   
               I wish I was(!) the lucky guy   
               To walk you right on down the isle.   
      
   Verse or no verse, that is genuine Creole speech, not poetic   
   license.   
      
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