The use of A with GRAIN gives the class membership of the item and illustrates the countification of mass nouns, with the deletion of the understood type(s) of.

Apart from charcoal, a number of small entrepeneurs have tried entering the cooking wood (also called smokewood or flavorwood) business in the past few years.

He could see through her cotton slacks, the cheeks of her bunda rubbing together, muscular, mashing, gnashing, eating each other alive, then kissing each other good night, and rolling their heads together on one pillow, relieved.

Taylor locates religious metaphorphosis in the nova effect, triggered, somewhat paradoxically, by the secular and naturalistic fragilizations of religion.