By Indefinite articles, Articles

Yes, you need the definite article before a superlative, whether the noun it modifies is singular or plural. the most beautiful girl/girlsTop gun; top dog are fixed expressions when used without an article. Ultimate climber/climbers may be a fixed expression, but I haven't heard it. If so,...

Yes, yes, yes. I know that. Maybe I used the wrong words to express what I was trying to say. Maybe I should have said it as follows:Only an uncountable noun can be used without an article (if it's singular).The formulation in sea uses no article.Therefore it treats sea as...

I don't get e-mail notifications from most of my posts on this forum but I saw your response as I was browsing what is going on at the moment. Please forgive me if I don't always respond to your questions. My e-mails have worked haphazardly after the face-lift in February. I don't...

Aha! This one is a little difficult. Absent earlier context setting the present time, "earlier in the evening" does two things. It establishes that the present time is this evening. And it establishes that Chavez picked the thing up at some time earlier this evening.Well, I guess...

Either article can be used. The indefinite article ("a") suggests little importance to what actual film she is watching, while the definite ("the") would make it clear that you are referencing a specific film.

Hi,I think I saw the words 'host' and 'multitude' listed as a quantifier (whatever it means - I don't know). I think I also saw the words with the indefinite article 'a' as in 'a host' and 'a multitude'. Is this right? Can I put the word 'all'...

I think the definite article, the indefinite article, and no article all work here with no significant difference in meaning. There may be shadings of differences in implication. But I think this particular example is best with "the."You could say, "The case suffers from lack of...

Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...

The part in question is "The streets practically were practically flooded but not serious enough to cause a total flooding or some any tragedy" and you have a point here as 'seriously' will be another adverb modifying the verb 'were flooded' but I used the adjective...

Hi 26TMNTJG2PG, Could you please explain to me why you didn´t correct the indefinite article before the word kids (second paragraph, first line)?I would also write seriously, instead of the word "serious" you used (the latter is only used in informal English - at least as far as I know...)