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Hi, How2die had this sentence in his post and I want to ask some questions on it. You can kindly give a general answer that will encompass all or answer individually. Unfakeable demonstrations of a superiority that has as least some underlying genetic component are almost unfailingly...

Hi, Question (1) in identifying parts of speech in the sentence: "There are a few of my favourite things" (as in the song in 'The sound of music') Is 'a few of' : an adjective, a quantifier, or a pronoun ? It's considered to be a pronoun. BTW, isn't a quantifier the same...

Thank you. Congratulations on you reaching the 5000 mark. I was looking at your original response "... so please send copies of the following ones so we ..." and somewhat understood why the determiner might not be needed. Please tell me why one would need and the other would not. 1....

Hi, Two questions: 1. In regard to your correction, can we put the article/determiner "the" in front of the words "copies"? No. It's a more general reference, not a reference to any specific copies. Copies may not even exist yet. 2. Why is that after the phrase "most of the invoices"...

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is " Does an English...

Hi, I think I am encountering a lot of cases where people are omitting determiners, e.g. a, an, or the, in a series of things (after the first thing), especially when they are all related to (or defined by) the subsequent phrase or clause. I think I will find lots of cases where the...

As an adverb, enough follows the adjective: This case is big enough to hold everything . (not enough big ). However, as a determiner, enough can go either before or after its noun: Here are cases enough to hold everything / Here are enough cases to hold everything . This leaves us with the...

Pradeep_tp wrote: Hello english world, I have been facing difficulty in understanding the usage of the words 'that ' and 'which'. I have no clear understanding of which word is more appropriate in what situation. 'Which' and 'that' overlap when it comes to relative clauses. In this...

"Which" is pronoun or determiner, acting as subject or object in its clause. "Which" also a question word to show what kind of information is wanted. In addtion to, " which" can be used to modify nouns and some pronouns--to identify things. Furthermore, " which " can also be conjunction. ...

Mister Micawber wrote: After imported doesn't work. The various subordinators are restricted to the types of clauses they can introduce. After cannot introduce -ed nonfinite clauses, whereas when and once can. There are all kinds of caveats. For instance, in -ing nonfinite clauses,...