By Articles, Predicates

There are many mistakes here, mostly of usage. I will address the major problems here. First sentence: a teen have benn victim of a short missed ,then he tried to kill his agressor,he had a feud with the two boys. Let's correct the spelling first: A teen have been victim of a shot...

I will think about that; something close to that might work. The editor thinks the two sentences mean the same thing because she thinks that "is logged" is the verb and is just changing it to logs in still says the same thing. However, the verb is just is with logged being a predicate adjective...

I think your problem in getting a response has been due to the conflation of two different questions: 1) Should I use the English indefinite article in this context? and 2) Is it possible to "be gay for" someone rather than just in general? 1) For the first question, the answer is easy. Skip...

Dear MrPedantic, yulysess, and Roro, We have opened several issues in this thread. I would like to go over some of them and state what my thinking is about them now that we have discussed them. MrPedantic's original post asked why very and much cannot be used equally,...

Dear Roro, As you said in a previous post, this is a "huge question." I think the answer will come from many fields: linguistics, philosophy, psychology, physiology, neuro-science.... Our language and our thinking are inherently and necessarily vague. If I ask for a hammer, I will be happy...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an object...

Hello MrP Thank you for your compliment. But I need some literature material to prove my supposition. By the way, don't you think English is extraordinary among European languages in that they put an indefinite article even to predicate nouns? (English) He is a student. (German) Er ist...

The part of the sentence under question is this Enclosed are a copy of last year’s program and some articles, ... I understand that if we switch it around, "A copy of last year's program and and some articles **are** enclosed.... " is correct. In French, I know the verb sometimes changes from...

'Sour' is a predicate adjective. 'The' is an article, one of the determiners, which act like adjectives, but are not normally classified as such. I think you are right, but I wouldn't insist on it with his teacher.

Here's the long version: I've thought about this question a lot, and I think now I've arrived at a conclusion. The meanings of the sentences don't change too much without the 'a +noun'. They're also still grammatically correct: "It was so hot that we went out" still works as a sentence. ...