By Definite articles, Tenses

WANG CHUN wrote: 1. Ancient and modern human beings use their great intelligence to invent machines that help people lead a comfortable and convenient life. My problem with this sentence is that it is not possible for ancient human beings to do anything any more, so using the present tense...

Maserati wrote: After she knew her subordinate affiliated with IBM Company, she made many eulogies and promised to back away from IC field. "Once she knew her subordinate had affiliated with the IBM Company, she was very complimentary and promised to move away from the IC field." 1) "Once"...

Hello Sharad If "novel" in your sentence means "a work of fiction", it needs a definite article. "To publishers" also sounds a little strange; as does "a period of years". Let me adjust it a little: 1. Developing over several years, the novel was finally presented by Cyndy to various...

Hello, Normally, I don't use the definite article in sentenses such as: Save the file in PDF format. Convert the document into Word format. Is it correct? If so, I'm a bit curious why? There is only one and only format we call PDF (or Word, for that matter), so it should be grammatically...

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...

where are you from vincent?. I would say yes it is possible to indentify certain mistakes Spanish people usually make and I have a long list of them somewhere in my files, for example one of them would be the use of the definite article. We use articles a lot more than English people do because...