In Articles^x, Grammar^x

Example Sentence: I want a mango, pineapple, and strawberry.I believe in the above sentence article a is associated with all the nouns, mango, pineapple, and strawberry. And same is the case with your sentence where article the only comes before dog but it is associated with both dog and...

Thanks, Clive. So, omitting the article would be still grammatical, but, maybe, with a bit different meaning?So you know what book I am reading.?. It's way better than the News anyway!  

Hi, Here's another quotation of Paracelsus, in which I am troubled by the definite article before "sperma". I certainly wouldn't use it, so can somebody explain why it is needed here? "If the sperma, enclosed in a hermetically sealed glass, is buried in horse manure for...

Good advice for beginners using "existential there".You've got four combinations to disentangle here."existential there" means there exists -- such-and-such "has existence"."locative there" means in that location -- at that place.The two meanings are...

Nevermind on this one. I figured it out. Sheesh. I don't know how I missed it. The "has" was referring to "whenever possible."

I can't find simple answers to these questions in the CMS or via web pages. Here they are: -- would vs will Let's say you're discussing a plans for a party or a law that may or may not actualize but you're describing what they will entail. Would you say "the party...

Thanks for coming by, Kooyeen."those are the kinds of books you should avoid reading" ... you know what? I could not agree with you more. You got that right. What a crap. Those books are beginning to evolve around themselves and started making up their own rules. I feel very sorry...

My brief opinion: those are the kinds of books you should avoid reading. Unfortunately, there's a lot of 'em.

I need your opinion on "there":A few grammar books carried by ESL students suggest that "there is" only takes indefinite articles such as "a/an", as in "There is an apple".Anything else, such as "the, my, our, his", is not supposed to come after...

What does this "seem the realized" part mean? Either I don't understand it or you have made a mistake ;)