In Indefinite articles^x, Articles^x

I have been told that the accent of Russian is such that Russians have to struggle a lot in order to speak good English. Is it true?

 Oh, that's the key. Assuming it does mean a single cell (which even makes more sense), do you think the indefinite article is also possible? Sorry for this long questioning, we just did understand each other.Anton EDIT: Yes, it means a single cell.

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...

Countable: http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhyNoArticleHere/ggjmr/post.htm As for uncountable, you have already seen them: "Water boils at 100 centigrades (at the "standard" atmospheric pressure)" — here "water" refers to the verty substance, and the sentence...

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...

Hi Ant,In one of the last posts you said: What I wanted to say is, whenever the indefinite article is used, the following noun is either countable or plays a "countable" role.Question 1:Emphasis is on the whenever. This is the same thing I said above. Let me rephrase it again, even...

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...

"Volcano" is presumably the name or title of that player, so it is indicating that this is a name and not an exploding mountain. You would not put an article before it unless there are more than one players with the name/title (as was indicated further onin the passage above),

Ant, you mean that even article the is used with countable nouns or the nouns which are acting as countable nouns. And would you please give a short explanation of the underlined part. Thank you.