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I think your problem in getting a response has been due to the conflation of two different questions 1 Should I use the English indefinite article in this context and 2 Is it possible to be gay for someone rather than just in general 1 For the first question the answer is easy Skip the article...

Hi davkett No I m not quoting a textbook explanation for the phrase Yes it can be translated as it would be timely if on the stipulaton that would is used In fact that is the matter hypothetical meaning In your former post you employed the phrase the time Article the here clarifies the mood so...

Hi The situation in Britain is that a public school is in fact a private one These are usually exclusive and expensive places to send your child They are primarily boarding schools meaning the students live eat and sleep there Perhaps the most famous is Eton The other kind of schools are termed...

I think the following article from Webster s Dictionary of English Usage answers some of our questions very 1 Very and the past participle Fitzedward Hall 1873 cited a Professor Maximilian Muller as asserting that expressions like very pleased and very delighted were Americanisms Hall refuted the...

Yes your question is really interesting I m Brazilian and consequently a Portuguese speaker In my native language like in Italian French Spanish and German some languages that I ve been studying other than English people use the definite and indefinite articles pronouns etc according to the noun...

Hello VC Such so as too how and what work as adverbs But when they are used as a modifier of an attributive adjective an adjective that comes before a noun they behave as a pre determiner a determiner that comes before an indefinite article Those pre determiners are divided into two groups...

Hello Dmitri If the conversation involved several formats we might well say the PDF format but normally since it is a proper name Adobe Acrobat s Portable Document Format then we would expect no article Not to say that there are no proper nouns that take the since the usage is somewhat idiomatic...

Just one or two words Is the following sentence possible natural for example There are capitalists communists socialists imperialists democrats republicans in this country 1 And republicans are evil 2 And the republicans are evil From what I gather I say the difference between 1 and 2 is not so...

Hello aruzinsky and I m really sorry for my misunderstanding These kinds of problems don t exist in my mother tongue so I m afraid I cannot give you any convincing data or analyses I need other members help And by extreme I meant not uncommon I don t think that some hyperbolic effect is contained...

Hello Mr Ruzinsky let me continue As you pointed out Sentences using Bare Plurals that is common nouns without quantifiers are vague It s true But sentences with definite indefinite articles too have two or several usages For example 1 John gave Peter a book The existential quantifier is well...