{"id":174,"date":"2010-02-04T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:45:49","slug":"do-you-have-a-news-or-some-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/do-you-have-a-news-or-some-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have “A News” or “Some News”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear this mistake all the time, so I thought I should put it down here.
\nIn English we say “news” not “a news”. It is uncountable.
\nEg.
\nVanesa:\u00a0 “I have some (good\/bad\/strange) news to tell you\/share with you\/for you!”<\/em>
\nRob:\u00a0 “Really?\u00a0 What’s the (good\/bad\/strange) news?”<\/em>
\nVanesa:\u00a0 “I’m pregnant!!!”<\/em>
\nRob:\u00a0 (Faints…)<\/p>\n

So please do not say “I have a news” or “a good news” – okay?\u00a0 Just say “news” or “some news”.
\nMore example\u00a0sentences:<\/p>\n

“Hey, did you see the guy on the news today that won the lottery?\u00a0 he looks so happy!”<\/em>
\n“I heard on the news today (meaning TV or radio) that Toyota is recalling a lot of cars.”<\/em>
\n“My co-worker shared with me the secret news that our company is down-sizing again.\u00a0 I wonder if I’ll survive the chopping block?”\u00a0 (That means stay working and not get fired)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hear this mistake all the time, so I thought I should put it down here. In English we say “news” not “a news”. It is uncountable. Eg. Vanesa:\u00a0 “I have some (good\/bad\/strange) news to tell you\/share with you\/for you!” Rob:\u00a0 “Really?\u00a0 What’s the (good\/bad\/strange) news?” Vanesa:\u00a0 “I’m pregnant!!!” Rob:\u00a0 (Faints…) So please do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[537],"tags":[580,555,605,606],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speak-english-better","tag-business-english","tag-esl","tag-grammar","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}