The definite and indefinite articles are very difficult to us Japanese people, because our language (Japanese) does not have them. I learned that "the" is necessary before "people" in the following sentence. The people who live

Snappy, We use the indefinite article to introduce something into a conversation and then the definite thereafter, maybe something like this: We went to a beautiful mountain. On the mountain we saw a deer. The deer had been hit by a car. The car

I quote King James Bible: "Matthew 28 16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them." It reads "...into a mountain where Jesus had..." Another version reads: "...the

. Why is there the indefinite article "a" before the word "passivity" when I think it is hard to conceive of any situation that would be good(?) to think of it as a type of it? (I might not have phrased my question correctly.)

. The indefinite article certainly helps in the determination, though I doubt that it is much of a deciding point. In any case, your clause is most likely restrictive (defining) because the gentleman in this isolated sentence has no definition

I recently used the following question on a quiz: A gentleman ________ I had never seen before smiled at me. The students were to put the relative pronoun in the first blank and then write whether it was a defining or non-defining relative

Hi. I was looking at the Google Book Search and saw this: Fear as a way of life: Mayan widows in rural Guatemala ‎ 저자: Linda Green - 1999 - 229 페이지 119 페이지 Yet this sense of fatalism did not necessarily translate

As I know indefinite article sometimes has a tint of quantitative means, approaching to word "one". There is no difference to me in those sentences.

Thank you for your replay. Definite and indefinite articles are difficult to us, because our language (Japanese) does not have grammatical articles.

I can't understand why in this sentence ““It’s been an amazing three weeks” the indefinite article “an” is used. The indefinite article (a or an) is singular, and cannot be used with a plural noun.