Micro Category Of Thing: Nuisances

Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 196):

Nuisances: nuisance, mess, disaster, shambles

General category: 'abstraction'

Particular features: formed as countable (a nuisance) but largely restricted to singular indefinite (forms such as nuisances, the nuisance, your nuisance are rare and outside this category); typically exclamative and/or ascriptive (that's a mess; what a mess), and accompanied by interpersonal Epithets (a horrible shambles, an utter disaster).