By Indefinite articles, Verbs

Hello, I´m interested in using the indefinite article with the word "breakfast" and the position of the verb of frequency (in this sentence - never) with "to have breakfast"). I have this sentence. What is possible?: 1) I never have breakfast. 2) I have never breakfast. 3) I never have a...

Hello VC "Such", "so", "as", "too", "how" and "what" work as adverbs. But when they are used as a modifier of an attributive adjective (=an adjective that comes before a noun), they behave as a pre-determiner (=a determiner that comes before an indefinite article). Those pre-determiners are...

Hello everyone, I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome. A/ Here is MY analysis: 1) She is so pretty a girl. a) parts of speech: she = nominative personal pronoun is = fintie verb so = adverb of...

Hello, Nobody replied to my previous post, but I hope someone will for this one 1) The representative told the press a lie out of fear of retribution. Parts of speech: The = definite article Representative = noun Told = ditransitive verb Press = noun A = indefinite article Lie = noun Out...

Hi CJ, First, I don't think english has an absolute or relative superlative, it just has a superlative which comes with the definite article often (or even always) but NEVER with the indefinite article. Now if you were right with this: #1) The ... probe is a most useful tool. - absolute...

Hello Komountain I had not forgotten. Here are some versions of the structure in question: 1. Hungry though he was, he shuddered at the sight. This seems to be the only non-problematic variant. It is an emphatic inversion: 'though he was hungry, he shuddered at the sight'. 2. Hungry as he...

These are my thoughts on the structure...Please feel free to comment adversely. The underlying structure of the 'normal' form is: e.g. 1a. 'It is too difficult a question to answer.' 2a. 'He is too easy a goalkeeper to beat.' 3a. 'That looks too hard a knot to untie.' 4a. 'Mine seems too...

Essay on The Collective Noun by Sophie Johnson Traditionally, the noun that names a collective is considered to be singular. Being singular, the verbial that denotes its act is also singular: (1) The family prays every evening. (2) Australia is playing against Portugal in the final...

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...

Hi Taka, Yes I've found the reference-- it's over in 'adjectives', and has to do with the rather anomalous order of adjectives with intensifiers 'how, too' etc. where the order of indefinite article and attibutive adjective is reversed. So, just as we cannot have 'X how lovely flowers these...