There are whole books on this subject, Anon. 95% of the uses of the definite article are at the front of a noun phrase to indicate that the noun is a specific one known to the speaker and/or listener, or that the noun has been mentioned previously

Hi, here's my explanation which is not necessarily correct 'Business class' as used here is an uncountable noun phrase (the noun class is normally countable) and is also used in the most general sense (shuns bussines class =

would you say an adjective can be placed after a noun? I am not a linguist, that being out of the way, I'd interpret it this way. North - is quite abstract as written in the sentence. For #1, it's understood to mean " north

Please correct me if I am wrong. But one single word can not satisfy the description of a . It depends on the analytical system you are using. Andrew Radford, in Transformational Grammar , gives the following sentence as an example: Cars can be

In many languages which have a corresponding word for of , this word is used with superlatives like best . Not so for English, which uses in before the noun phrase that tells the pool from which the example was drawn. the best player in the group

Hi teachers, One of the threads has the following sentences listing personal strengths. And I just wonder why "accept" and "deliver" are used since the rest of the strenghts being described are of "noun phrase"?

Hi, I agree with you. I tried to search the Internet and both noun phrases are common. But the second sentence can be rewritten as He's making an instructional dvd on massage. And I certainly don't know what "instructional

Jaleel.nt, in the first instance, we deal with a phenomenon that is conventionally known as a passive gerund ; the whole clause with being... can be substituted with a noun phrase, eg, ...this award . Therefore, we refer to being... as a nominal

Dear speakers of English. I have a question concerning English relative clause which had long been my headache. Here is my sentence: He is the son of Mike, who is my best friend. My question is: which one should be the antecedent of the

Hi ecopsy, 1. This would work in the right context - describing a performance in the theater, for example. 2. This doesn't make sense - good trains on THEM could work if there were, for example, playing cards with different designs on