By Articles, Pronouns

Grammar Ninja is an educational game where the player identifies parts of speech in rapid succession. Correct answers help you advance; wrong ones blow up in your face. The game is modeled after Brain Age's CalculationsX20 exercise. Grammar Ninja is my final project for my Independent Study in...

There has been some recent debate on the letter pages of a paper here in London about the verb usage in the sentence "I was stood at the bus stop".I say debate, but really there has been none, since everyone who has written in has equally deplored this usage.I disagree.I think it might be...

Put it this way: I created this sentence using the dictionary definitions of the words. Can you understand it? I wouldn't have a clue what this was talking about ...it just doesn't make sense even though these are the dictionary definitions. "A pronoun used by a speaker or writer to refer to...

The article you quote is about the relationship between car and its. Every car must have its brakes tested. The article is not about subject-verb agreement. But since you ask, there are two grammatical facts to consider: 1. The modals (can, will, must, ...) do not change form in...

To pick up on some of your other points: Linguistic differences between languages have different degrees of cultural implication, e.g. Significant cultural implication1. The distinction in standard Russian, Italian, French, etc. between the second person singular and plural pronouns. "You" is...

Hi, Is this a JUPAS essay? The content is okay. Some problems with grammar and wording. I've highlighted the parts that you need to fix. To be a business woman has long been my dream. It (Do not use pronoun here) not only helps me to develop a logical and analytical mind, but also enrich...

No in your sentence is a pronoun (at least in my terminology) and you never use an article with it:I have no book.I saw no boy.Cf. The Swedish: Jag har ingen bok. (No article there either. Related languages.)Your sentence is correct.CheersCB

'This is a book' is fine. Books are countable, so if you introduce one single book, you must use 'a'. If you use personal pronouns (I/we, you, he/she/it, they) you shouldn't use any article. 'This' and 'that' are not used with articles, but you can use 'this' and 'that' instead of ...

One of the English words that troubles me the most is the little fellow "AS". Below is a sample paragraph quoted from an article: "The giants had been expelled from the mountain; but they had only withdrawn to the neighboring cities of Philistia (Joshua 11:22). Thence they had, as must be...

Separable phrasal verbs must be separated when there is a pronoun. Pick me up and not pick up me. I Picked up a leaflet from the floor. "Is it always the case that the non-pronoun object could be either before or after the particle in a phrasal verb" Only if, but not if and only if, the pv...