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Hi,Please tell me if the article is needed. Please tell me the reason for your decision if possible. I think you can look this in two ways: one is, a quoted content, ie, one in quotation marks, sort of an countable noun and treat as such and the other is a word in quotes to denote an unusal use...

Hi, How would you justify the use of hyphens to denote what seems to be a noun? I wouldn't try to justify it. At best, it's extremely casual, and at worst it's just lazy and unstructured English.I think this string of words can be thought as a big noun made of little...

Hi,How would you justify the use of hyphens to denote what seems to be a noun? I think this string of words can be thought as a big noun made of little parts. Could it be in quotations without hyphens and would it make a difference or no difference? I think a problem might result if put...

"Volcano" is presumably the name or title of that player, so it is indicating that this is a name and not an exploding mountain. You would not put an article before it unless there are more than one players with the name/title (as was indicated further onin the passage above),

Thank you. You said: Usually when we introduce a common noun into a conversation for the first time we use the infinite article, then when we refer back to that item/person/etc. we use the definite. Does it apply to what seems to be a common noun used a game instruction section like as in ...

Hi,I think I have seen more than enough cases where what people call a verbal noun has the indefinite article 'a' in front of it and at the very least, the sheer number (should it be - sheer numbrs??) of it warrants some good explanations from experts in this forum. I think I can laid out...

Hi,Please correct this simple writing.I went to my uncle's house yesterday. There, I saw my aunt, who looked like she came back from shopping -- by looking at the shopping bags strewn about near the door when I entered his house. "They are into tidiness," I thought; that was...

.Italics were used because they are the titles of the parts of... what? An exhibition? Official style manuals include guidelines for titling. Italics are the print equivalent of underscoring, which is usually done for book titles, for instance, while short stories are instead enclosed in...

Hi, How can we use the article "a" in front of words like "hello" and "thank-you" with or without quotation marks? If it has quotation marks around it, I take it as being treated as sort of an uncountable noun, but sometimes, I don't see quotation marks; then,...

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 could write: The mixing of sugar and flour makes this...