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Hi, evetybody. Below is the third and so far the last question concerning LOTR: Tom Bombadil: "You shall clean grimy hads and wash your weary faces." Neither an article nor a pronoun modifies "hads". How is that possible? Thanks you very much in advance,Anton

Here is a question on which I have been wracking my brain for some time now and finally decided to write in.If we do not use an article before 'uncountable nouns and abstract nouns' why do we say  ' Can you give me a lift to the nearest tube station'                  ...

Hi,I was wondering if you put words like "his" and "the" in front of a noun that is a variable noun, what then is the nature of the noun after having put those words. I know if you put the indefinite article 'a', then it becomes countable, but if we frame the noun with...

HiYour sentence is in the present perfect. "Have you ever had ...""the feeling" is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not saying they...

Hi,Please look at this and tell me if the indefinite article 'a' goes with the third and fourth underlined parts. Is there possible confusion? If yes, how would you resolve it in term of grammar and the sentence structure? Would you say ther article 'a' does not go with any other...

Hi,Le us pretend I have a brand or type of lotion named "Dingding" and I think I can say this:Let us try some Dingding on my hand and check out if it really moisturalizes my hand as well as John said it could.If I say "some Dingding," could it mean some of the lotion in the...

I don't have any rules handy, but 'the' before 'Playstation' sounds odd to me.I use Windows on my computer, not 'the Windows'. However, I might say that "the Windows system is not as good as people say". If you had one candy bar, 'a Snickers';...

Hi,1. In a thread named 'Why "the" in front of a game name?" started by an Anon, it, I think, asked whether 'the' should be part of the sentence.It is cool and exciting as the Playstation 3.In that thread, if I have interpreted Lazarus's explanation correctly, I...

"why was late reply" is not a sentence. It has no meaning. In English a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (. ; : ? !)In addition, you seem to have omitted a definite or indefinite article or a possessive pronoun and mixed up the word order."Why...

Here is a practice: Q: A minute passed in complete silence. Terri announced her wedding plans then. I wrote: A minute passed in complete silence when Terri announced her wedding plans. A: A minute when Terri announced her wedding plans passed in complete silence. Grammar rules say: The...