By Articles, Possessives

Both of them are right. In the first sentence your is a possessive adjective. In the second sentence you is an object pronoun (as in me, you, him, her, etc). In informal or spoken English it is more common to use object pronouns before the -ing form, especially when it is functioning as the...

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...

I guess that you are writing about the movie adaptation of Othello by Orson Welles. A person who is flippant treats serious things lightly, perhaps to the point of being disrespectful. Your use of "flippancy", if this is your intended meaning, is correct. There is, however, a grammatical flaw in...

I'd like to add that -ics nouns including physics, acoustics, ballistics, dynamics, economics, kinetics, mathematics, mechanics, and politics can be singular or plural depending on how they are used. When used generally, without the definite article, they are singular, as in: Physics is my...

Because all singular countable nouns which are not implicitly determined, need to be explicitly determined. In general, the simplest way to do this is with the articles "a" and "the". In English, however, the possessives implicity provide determination, so an article is not necessary if you use...

That is probably one of the most difficult questions you could ask. Hmmm. Here goes... If a determiner is supplied, you don't need an article. Determiners include numbers, words like "some", "those", etc., and possessives, such as "his", "John's", etc. Proper nouns don't need an article, unless...

'A' , 'an' and 'the' are articles, but they are also 'determiners'. Determiners are the class of word that go at the start of a noun group. Other determiners are possessive pronouns, eg. 'my' and 'their', 'demonstatives' -'this, that, these, those', and 'general determiners' like 'some, both,...

I know nothing about sports journalism, but I just thought I'd point out that you need to title your report either this: "Do males' writing styles differ from females' in sports journalism?" or this: "Do male and female writing styles differ in sports journalism?" Or something like that, where...