In Definite articles^x, English grammar^x

An excellent reply, Jazz. I hope you won't mind if I expand on it a little. The correct use of articles is acknowledged to be one of the most difficult points of English grammar, so don't be despondant Ali; mistakes don't usually matter too much, as you will still be understood. First, we don't...

hi. I have heard that I should say "he has good English" instead of "he has a good English." I don't understand why. Especially I have found the sentence "he has a tolerable English" in a English grammar book. The explanation of the use of the aticle "a" in the previous sentence is "the...

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I...