By Commas, Definite articles

Clive wrote: why is this definite article used? I agree. It would be better without the article to indicate their generality. Clive wrote: should have created suggests these religions were not created. I thought 'Should have -ed' could also be used to indicate the speaker's guess at their...

Hi Taka, Men should have created religions, which can/could teach the values that are/were different from those of ordinary people. Now such religions sometimes become the reason of conflicts.About the parts in red, which tense would you choose? Or are they both grammatically acceptable? I find...

Thank you, Languagelover and you. As to No. 1, when I think of the words like "MAXIMUM" and "MINIMUM," I am thinking similar to that of "highest and lowest" and "greatest and worst"; thus, I tend to put the definite article "the" and not thinking about putting the indefinite article "a". The...

1 and 2 mean the same; the nonfinite clause is a sentence adverbial in both. The 3rd is simply improperly punctuated: it needs a comma after commander, as in #2. There is only one commander, so the nonfinite clause will be nonrestrictive in any case-- and remain adverbial in function.Present...

I wonder if there is any tactics by means of which you would be returned to life, now being more susceptible to small bites, to unevenness/uneven heart beats of the heart. "Unevenness" is a noun, not an adjective, so it couldn't be used to describe anything. Saying "heart beats of the heart"...

Mmh, I don't quite agree with you my GoodMan...I think the definite article is needed in both sentences. It is actually 'the bat species' that we're talking about here. The other option would be to go for the plural :'Bats are the only mammals that can fly'.To me, the original sentences as...

The fourth should be the most straightforward-- it is a restrictive (defining) clause by virtue of the that and the lack of a preceding comma, not to mention the fact that there is no other information presented which could define these public funds.Compare:4a-- There will be an investigation of...

1-- Capitalize; if the quotation is set off syntactically from the matrix text by a comma, semicolon, or colon, the first word is capitalized, irrespective of its status in the original text. 2-- Mormons; no apostrophe 3-- Capitalize as in #1 4-- She is saying it. BrE (I believe) would...

1) I think that "definitive" works better than "definite." 2) "Location" sounds better in my opinion. 3) I would say "the theatre stages a modern version of Hamlet". 4) That sounds fine to me, except that there should be an "a" preceding the word "place". 5) Certainly they can. 6) That does...

I came upon a sentence in a newspaper article today. It reads: 'Consumer DVD recorders use the same, smaller number of bits for each frame, regardless of detail.' Here, a comma is needed because the two adjectives both modify 'number'. It can be rewritten as: 'Consumer DVD recorders...