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Armsys wrote Wow I m rather surrpised but delighted by your explanation Thanks a lot How does it apply to post office police bus etc It doesn t The use of articles is perhaps the trickiest part of English grammar Sometimes logic helps sometimes it doesn t CB

Hi MuttleyUnfortunately there are a myriad cases involving proper nouns with adjectival attributes and the indefinite article You ll just have to learn them piecemeal As you said in your first post a an is often used with a person s name We met a sad George yesterday The indefinite article is...

Hi Jackson 5 As name suggests a count noun is countable then how can one use indefinite article a or an with it In grammar countable means that you can count the noun concerned For example an egg one egg two eggs etc Uncountable means that particular noun cannot be literally counted For example...

Hi What grammar part is this It is nice seeing you here A gerund ou are really saying Seeing you here is nice Should I use the articles before these I want would like to invite you to a no a Christmas dinner I want would like to invite you to a no a Thanksgiving dinner The terms are usually...

There are twelve tenses in English grammar Do we have to use the definite article the for each tense or not Can you give me some explanations please In the below examples Do we have to use the or not 1 In the use of the Present Simple 2 The Present Perfect Tense or Present Perfect Tense 3...

the old grammarians would have called 1 1 and 2 1 verbal nouns No See below See Sect 273 of B amp S All examples with the ing of are called gerunds there 1 1 The singing was excellent I m not sure what B amp S would call this but neither verbal noun nor gerund is out of the question 1 2 I like...

Thanks for the clarification I didn t know that source was so old So assuming the modern terminology the term gerund comprehends a much wider class of words And the gerunds in the examples below are very different but all gerunds while the old grammarians would have called 1 1 and 2 1 verbal...

Thank you Eimai_Anglos Are you saying a genitive cannot be made a countable noun or used as a countable noun I think a guru has delivered expert advice on that aspect of grammar and I think it has been said a construction like a shaking of a ground means an instance of shaking of a ground Please...

Dear Friends We don t use definite article the before the name of any language He speaks fluent english But when say English Language we use the A Comprehensive grammar of the English language I would like know why do we need to add the in second case Take another case The Labour party or The...

Q Once I saw a person who typed the sentence I will meet you very the soon Is the usage of definite article correct in the above mentioned sentence in quotation No It should be very soon Q What is the difference between especially and specially especially means the characterisic talked about is...