"The scenery"

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.
This sentence is from CPE Use of English. The exercise asks to finish the sentence. The book's sentence starts with "It was.."
"The scenery was very dramatic so we stopped to admire it."
My sentence: It was a dramatic scenery so we stopped to admire it". I am not sure I can use "a" before an uncountable "scenery".

 

[Yankee]

Would be OK preceded by an adjective as in your sentence..

 

[Skrej]

Can you use indefinite articles with other non-count nouns? 'Scenery' is no different.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Can you use indefinite articles with other noncount nouns?

As far as I know and as Yankee mentioned only if it's used with an adjective but since I used it with an adjective I don't understand why my sentence is wrong.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Would be OK preceded by an adjective as in your sentence..

I used an adjective. The second sentence is mine. So it's correct, isn't it?

 

[GoesStation]

Would be OK preceded by an adjective as in your sentence..

No it wouldn't. "A dramatic scenery" is incorrect. It tries to make the uncountable "scenery" countable.

 

[GoesStation]

I used an adjective. The second sentence is mine. So it's correct, isn't it?

No. "Scenery" is uncountable.

 

[Rachel Adams]

No. "Scenery" is uncountable.

The book says start the sentence with "It was.." "It was the dramatic scenery so we stopped to admire it." Would it be correct?

 

[Rachel Adams]

No. Use no article.

Why is it wring to use it there?

 

[tzfujimino]

How about "It was such dramatic scenery that we stopped to admire it."?