By Articles, Pronouns

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Hi, Anon, I think I see what you mean. In your first case example, to simply say that something "is" doesn't give very much information, unless you're a philosopher, like Descartes, "I think, therefore I am." Your first case example works best when answering questions. "What is it?" "It's an...

Sentences must start with a capital letter, and the personal pronoun I is always capitalized in English. The word shopping has two p's. You buy "something" but that doesn't take an article. (No "a" in your sentence.) Otherwise, they are correct, but not very natural. Using the word "do"...

Well, the excerpt you have posted is not very well thought through. Possessives here are obviously an open class-- my friend's, John's, Mary's, my dog's, his aardvark's, ad infinitum-- as are cardinal and ordinal numbers-- eight-hundred-and-forty-first, eight-hundred-and-forty-second....However,...

When a posessive pronoun doesn not preceede a noun ("my car"), it should still be posessive: «...and you ain't no friend of mine.» "Commitee" is not a pronoun at all. EDIT: Article on your question: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dou3.htm

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...

Categories or Parts of Speech he - pronoun he - noun phrase (NP)* is - verb a - article nice - adjective person - noun a nice person - noun phrase (NP)* is a nice person - verb phrase (VP)* *These designations come from a system of analysis called 'transformational...

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. After some...

Zj.frank wrote:Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes "the few"? If...

Hi, For the following proper names, I think it is safe to assume that the article 'the' is pretty much stuck in normal sentential situations, but like 'the Pacific Ocean', when you see proper names as they are represented as in signs, they aren't necessary with an English article, as they...