In #1, the article is necessary. "They are painting mural on the wall" is incorrect. In #2, the indefinite article is correct. More context is required to determine if the definite article would be more appropriate. Are we talking about

I still have difficulty using the indefinite article. 1. There are two banks near my house. I use both of them. If I am on my way to one of the banks and somebody asks me where I am going, what should I say? 1) I'm

Snappy, We use the indefinite article to introduce something into a conversation and then the definite thereafter, maybe something like this: We went to a beautiful mountain. On the mountain we saw a deer. The deer had been hit by a car. The car

However, what you have made a mistake with in my humble opinion is that the indefinite article isn't used with uncountable nouns. Uncountable nouns ARE used with the indefinite article when the abstarct noun denotes a certain kind of quality,

If the name of the game already has the word "ball" stuck on the end of it, there's no need to repeat it when speaking only of the ball. We don't say "a football ball." We play racquetball with a racquetball, but we

1. Do we put a comma before AS? usually we don't 2. Among his most renowned works of this genre, I should mention Waverly, Ivanhoe and Rob Roy. (comma?) have no idea if a comma is relevant here or not. i'd omit it :) 3. But Scott first

I'd like to know the usage of indefinite article. Which greetig is common in speaking or writing? #11. Merry Christmas. #12. A merry Christmas. #13. Have merry Christmas. #14. Have a merry Christmas. #21. Happy Halloween. #22. A happy

Hi, please look at this sentence and tell me why it would be wrong to put the indefinite article 'a' to express one's incredulous feeling of encountering what I consider to be an instance of hypocrisy or blasphemy -- although on second

Avangi is right on. Most times when we say "There is", the subject is used with the indefinite article. There is a book on the table; there is a woman in the house. "The" is used only when the context indicates some definite

Paul Burke schrieb: None of the above - it's an article (the definite article, to be specific). But can you say what part of speech it is without infinite recursion? What part of speech is the "the" in "the definite