By Articles, Tenses

What do you think of this sentence, which I have read in the Arab News Newspaper of Wednesday 28 Nov. The sentence is as follows: "Iran yesterday announced that it has built a new missile with a range sufficient to put Israel and US bases in the Middle East within easy reach..." Source:...

He explained, "I was asked to write an article called 'What We Dont Know About Jealousy' for a new magazine. The problem is that I don't know much about jealousy. But I thought if you were interested in the subject, we could pool our ignorance and have some fun writing the article togehter." I...

Microsoft dropped the claim that Windows is slowed down when Internet Explorer is removed. The senior management has little enough morals to use misleading (false) testimony to help their defense, which has little merit.

The following are the excerpts from the Wikipedia article United States v. Microsoft. The text in red is troubling me and My comments are appearing in brown.In the videotaped demonstration of what Microsoft vice president James Allchin's stated to be a seamless segment filmed on one PC, the...

CalifJim wrote:These computations are concerned with subatomic particles.I'm not sure what a modem is, but it's something that's concerned with computers.AARP is an organization that is concerned with retired people. It appears none of your samples has anything to do with "worrying"...

Things in red again. Cheese1987 wrote: Thank you very much! Three standards define how ethical the media is - objectivity, fairness, and accuracy. Columbia University emeritus journalism professor Melvin Mencher claims Objectivity (why capitalize it?) should avoid bias and...

<<Do we have to use the definite article "the" for each tense or not? >> To be very strict about it, yes, but we frequently write telegraphically and leave out the the, especially on this site, where we use the names of the tenses so often. <<1.In the use of the Present...

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...

Hi, my name is Kostya, English is SL for me too. However I've been living in the US for half a year. So I decided to answer to try to help you with your essay. I won't be always correct so be sure to get a check from a native speaker. Besides I'm an MBA student myself (Golden Gate University, San...

Just highlighted a few glaring errors. Anonymous wrote: During the Gulf War of 1991, John Simpson, a foreign affairs editor of BBC Television, was sent as a reporter to Bagdad. Because of malnutrition and exhaustion (consider rearranging the sentence) he had to go to hospital in Amman, Jordan....