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Hi Aperisic, You say that the nouns quoted by you do not use an article and that when the article (either a/an or the) is not used like this, we are referring to the primary purpose of the mentioned place. However, you're referring to British English. In American English, 'the' will be...

I so often forget to include the caveat "in American English." I know the Brits have a different approach to some collective nouns (country, company, etc.) so it should be so with "police" as well. In American English, police is plural. Google results showed singular police used in other...

C: countable nouns that are used with a or an or a number and have a plural: car, soldier U: uncountable nouns that cannot be used with a or an or a number and have no plural: happiness, pasta (On the inside front cover of Macmillan Essential Dictionary for Learners of American English) I...

I have trouble figuring out why 'grammar experts' get the blame for these. There are a number of reasons why people might disagree over these usages: colloquial vs written, American vs British, PC vs non-PC, prescriptivism vs descriptivism, and even one or two examples where there are...

Francesca wrote:No Matress, celibacy is a "single state", no "chastity" Thank you, in fact I didn't find this word in the dictionaries, I just found celibateadjective not having sex, esp. because of religious principles celibacy noun Celibacy is highly respected in Hindu society.(from...

Believer wrote:Thank you. There was a typo. Aside from that, why do you think Marius and the reference source seem have noted the phrase "a friend of my uncle's" and not "a friend of my uncle" as the only possible correct phrase? I must note that the phrase in the original post "a friend's my...

1. Susan is a girl eleven years old. Sounds fine in a narrative style, or perhaps for a voice over in a documentary, but not natural in everyday speech 2. Used they to take a walk after dinner? Definitely not standard modern English. 3. Italy, who has been in the...

It's not regional (except insofar as it seems to me to be more AmE than BrE) and not sloppy, in my opinion -- unless you want to say also that British speakers who say "choon" for "tune" are sloppy. It is "glide absorption", and it is the sine qua non of authentic American...

Since you are in TeiPei, it is most likely American English and therefore "staff" is used as singular noun. looked at the red markers. I think "are" should be changed to "is" because of the collective noun modifier " a group of". My staff has contacted a group of doctors that are...

Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.expatriate (adj., n., v.), expatriot (n.) Expatriate is the Standard spelling of the noun meaning "someone either excluded from or self-exiled from the native land," and the adjective is spelled and pronounced the...