By Definite articles, Grammar

Carlin wrote: In our grammar class, we encountered a sentence which we found unclear: Gorkon responded, "Unfortunately not. Several individuals nations on Green have developed the bomb and other deadly weapons.So far they have avoided using the weapons against each other, and now there is...

Carlin wrote: In our grammar class, we encountered a sentence which we found unclear: Gorkon responded, "Unfortunately not. Several individuals nations on Green have developed the bomb and other deadly weapons.So far they have avoided using the weapons against each other, and now there is a...

In our grammar class, we encountered a sentence which we found unclear: Gorkon responded, "Unfortunately not. Several individuals nations on Green have developed the bomb and other deadly weapons.So far they have avoided using the weapons against each other, and now there is a sort of uneasy...

Inchoateknowledge wrote:If the rules of grammar require a definite article to precede them, apply them, not otherwise. What super advice! I assure you it can survive in any circumstance!

Hi Verbal nouns have a verb as a base morpheme. If the attached derivational affixes (morphemes like -ness, pre, etc.) change their syntactic cathegory and the new lexeme is a noun, then you have a verbal noun. advance + -ment If the rules of grammar require a definite article to precede...

Nona The Brit wrote:Hard to explain but either would be ok. Yes, your new version is probably better. The first is more colloquial - it's more pointing out her hairstyle 'short black hair' as a cohesive whole in the way that we might say 'she is the woman with the red handbag'. Imagine...

She is the woman with the short black hair.Is the second definite article OK? Shouldn't the sentence read: She is the woman with short black hair?

Hello Believer I think Paco is using the phrase "verbal noun" in the sense "noun derived from a verb". Thus "rescue" and "notification" qualify as "verbal nouns", because the first derives from the verb "rescue", and the second from the verb "notify". (I hope I'm not misrepresenting Paco.) Some...

1. The a goes only with technique, not with information. The order may be changed to presents information and a fresh, new technique. This shows more clearly that the a goes only with technique. 2. less of is typically followed by a definite article and a countable noun. We should...

Although grammar books say the indefinite article should not be used with uncountable nouns, there are many instances in which it is. In your sentence it is the phrase from God and the relative clause that is by faith... that introduces the article. The writer refers to a special kind of...