By Determiners, Expressions

Riglos wrote:Hi people! First of all, let me give you some examples: Context: After a party, a woman is chatting with a friend about the party she went to the previous day: "I have met very many people at the party." Then, she goes on to tell her friend who is / was it that she met. Her...

Hi Mara, My comments and corrections are in blue. This is an assignement I corrected and I'd appreciate it if some of you could have a look at it and tell me what you think of my corrections. It concerns a Memo sent to the CEO of a company. My comments and corrections will be in red, as well...

This is an assignement I corrected and I'd appreciate it if some of you could have a look at it and tell me what you think of my corrections. It concerns a Memo sent to the CEO of a company. My comments and corrections will be in red, as well as some questions I posed: Student's...

Hi, Context: After a party, a woman is chatting with a friend about the party she went to the previous day: "I have met vary many people at the party." More natural is 'I met a lot of people at the party'. 'Very many' does not work here. 'Many' is mainly used in the negative. 'I didn't meet...

Hi people! First of all, let me give you some examples: Context: After a party, a woman is chatting with a friend about the party she went to the previous day: "I have met vary many people at the party." Then, she goes on to tell her friend who is / was it that she met. Her friend knows some...

Nouns like "pants", "gloves", "glasses" are almost always used in plural forms, because the things expressed by them are useful only when they are paired. I feel this kind of noun is bit different from usual countable nouns in the choice between the two expressions "this kind of" and "these kind...

Hello KMI almost to Goldmund. My E-J says as follows. an expression to describe a simultaneous situation that the subject has the thing in the body part. (EX) He began to speak with a pipe in his hand/mouth. The determiners are often elided. (EX) He began to speak with (a)...

Hello J I'm sorry for being too late to post. I think the sentences of yours and Davket's are quite correct grammatically. However, it would be better to know there are another expressions about #3 and #4. 3-A. He and I are of the same generation. 3-B. He and I are the same...

Hello, muratsekerci again. I'd better rewrite my answer here, because I made a lot of mistakes. Question 2 “The dog chased John.” Derive the semantic value of the determiner the as a higher-order expression from the translation of the sentence above abstracting away the semantic...

Hello Guest. What a coincidence. I saw the same question just an hour ago. ================================= Suppose: The expression belongs to the category TV. It's logical type is >,t>>,>. The expression belong to the category T. It's logical type is...