In Indefinite articles^x, Clauses^x

Right or wrong For a moment1 I even thought2 that this was some sort of test3 and that this woman was someone from the head office4 testing my loyalty5 1 Prepositional phrase used adverbially 2 Main clause 3 Dependant clause 4 Dependant clause 5 Participial phrase For preposition A indefinite...

171 I have a sentence that seems to be followed with a restrictive clause 187 It is descriptive If it was singular indefinite article would be used 171 I have an apple that has not been sprayed with insectside 187

Mr M Lately I think I am seeing more of what looks be uncountable nouns followed by what looks to be retrictive clauses and precede by the indefinite article a Is that right How about this IS THIS RIGHT A beauty of the Princess of Bigman s land is exquisite Can an uncountable which is followed by...

Although grammar books say the indefinite article should not be used with uncountable nouns there are many instances in which it is In your sentence it is the phrase from God and the relative clause that is by faith that introduces the article The writer refers to a special kind of righteousness...

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 sounds too...

The nonfinite clause reading books is the subject It is a single activity Fun is an uncountable emotion experience feeling so it does not take the indefinite article Reading books a book is fun is the only grammatically correct sentence

Dear paco The indefinite article is optional in your example Usually it is required as in He is a loser Er ist ein Versager I would have to think it over more thoroughly but for now I would say it is only optional for occupations professions cronic medical illnesses and to indicate geographic or...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong or Child as he was had a simple complementary sense in his day I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one Children of poor social classes in Dickens times would be put in...

Thanks Eagle Paco and MisterM for all your painstaking posts Much to chew on 1 It s odd that both your and K s dictionaries give this structure which I seldom if ever hear Maybe it s more common elsewhere Sorry all I should have been clearer I meant the Child as he was construction seemed unusual...

Neither of your natural sounding examples has an indefinite article followed by a time unit followed by before within an if clause It seems to me that one or more of these factors must be contributing to the difference we sense I think we have met before has no article and time unit so I think it...