In Articles^x, Nouns^x

Hello I just have this thing that really confuses me with noun I always tend to put s after every noun And sometimes i try to generalize noun without putting any s and article a I just want to know in which cases do i not use any of s and article a an or the Do i not put those when I just try to...

Thank you CJ I don t care for preposition either it doesn t sound right since after all a preposition is characterized by the fact that it requires a noun pronoun or at least must be put before pre something I ll go for particle then reminds me of German and besides it sounds quite right Those...

The sentences are correct but it would be more common to hear them without a duration of and a period of since minutes and hours are clearly periods of time If duration and period are used the article a is necessary A and an are indefinite adjectives notionally they mean one The cake was baked in...

Hi all In the with N prepositional phrase pattern I often find no indefinite article used Examples With ticket in hand I proceeded to the boarding gate With suitcase in hand he briskly walked into his office With book in hand the teacher paced the floor back and forth All the nouns here ticket...

Hello 1 I watched a film on television 2 I watched a film on the television Which one is correct As somebody told me that the article the is not used before the noun television but the same is used for radio why so

I think Fowler invented it He begins a long article in which he attempts to persuade us to use that to define and which to describe with the words What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize And yet the temptation to show...

And hello yet again Hela In the sentences in your first post there is only one adjective phrase very little in sentence 3 An adjective phrase is a construction that has an adjective as its head the most important word In very little little is the head it s an adjective and the adverb very is a...

You are right Paco The word problem is definitely a countable noun That s why when I first encountered the expression have x problem ing perhaps decades ago I thought it s a rather unusual construction This peculiarity compelled me to memorize the expression by rote then Along the way the...

Some proper nouns take the article the and some don t Mountains are often preceded by mount or simply nothing eg Ben Nevis

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 definite article RADIO noun used as an adjective VOLUME noun IN...