Hi, It has been known to me that a gerund can function as a noun and should or likely to be treated more as an uncountable noun than a countable noun. Mixing of sugar and flour makes this dough ... If you want to be specific, I think you

Which of these is better for a PC, two 1GB (memory) chips or one 2GB (memory) chip? You may not get a useful answer if you ask it this way. A configuration is a combination of components. We normally talk about configurations for certain specific

Eww. This popsicle tastes like pickle. Do you need an indefinite article here? Is it mandatory? Thanks!

Maria Markova says in a lawsuit filed Monday that the 21-year-old Lohan took ... You can use the with a name, thus: The 21-year-old Lohan took ... = Lohan, who is a 21-year-old, took ... The ingenious Mr. Blackstone also invented ... = Mr.

Hi, I sorted of learned from somewhere online that you would use the definite article before a noun in situations like this if you have encountered only one person in a yellow tropical shirt all day yesterday. The man in a yellow tropical

Please correct the following sentences: Patient: Doc, is this a placebo? Doc: No, it's a pharmacologically active. Patient: I thought it was an inert. You should delete the indefinite article in the second and third sentences. -

Hi there, I thought that ordinal numbers can have only a definite article. Then I read one post yesterday from a native speaker where he used indefinite article... "A second text file was used to pry it open" Why he used indefinite

Hi, There are lots of cases where we put an indefinite article in front of a capitalized noun. eg Would you like a Coke? eg I needed a new car, so I bought a Toyota Camry. Best wishes, Clive

Thank you. How would someone place 'a' here? Since they think there is more than one disabled grant available elsewhere? What troubles me is the use of an indefinite article in front of a noun that is capitalized -- which makes me think it

Hi, Does this mean it is thinking of probable situations in which there are more than one council? I feel the use of 'the' can be acceptable too eventhough it is thought to be more than one council elsewhere. Thus, in February ***, a