In Articles^x, Possessives^x

Sextus wrote: Hi MrP. Many thanks for your last suggestions. You told me that you weren't sure about the following sentence: "This second perspective consists in affirming that those values do not exist independently of us, since they are just projections of ours." You suggested:...

1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN = main verb DOWN = adverb particle THE =...

Dear teachers, Would you please tell me if my analysis is correct ? 1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = determinative adjective (quantifier) BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = ?? TURN = main verb...

"no" serves as the article. Actually, what you need is a determiner. "a/an", "the", "no", "some", and the possessive adjectives are all examples of determiners. You can't use more than one determiner together, so you can't have "a no problem" or "the some problems" or "a my problem", etc. ...

I agree with pieanne on the hyphen. The possessive in the second one is awfully strange to me. Where did you come across (not 'come over') that? As for omitting the indefinite article: offer an example where you think it might be unnecessary.

I presume you mean no indefinite article 'a' either, Elviajero? That leaves us with: (1) unspecified plurals: 'I love cats'; (2) nouns modified by a possessive, demonstrative, quantifier, etc: 'some/my/this/those cat/cats. They are likely to be some other cases that I have forgotten.

Paco, I too was taught the "one's doing" formulation in the sixties and have never stopped using it, and neither have any of my friends and family whom I consider careful speakers of English. I have also found it to be universally followed in American formal writing (anything from newspapers to...

maverick88, I accept "Despite my being thirsty I went on working", yes. Leaving out the "my" is of course possible and perhaps even preferable because of the "I" which appears quite soon after. Let's change the sentence so that the conjunction of "me" and "I" is not at issue. I accept...

Please can you help? A student has questions about the adjective/article “the” and the adjective “all”, capitalization and possessive usage: Kindly reply via e-mail to: marco@marcopolopoet.com Which of the following is correct and why? All the girls are … All of the girls are … ...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...