In Definite articles^x, Grammar^x

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...

The definite article appears before a host of singular proper nouns:The Meiji Era, the University of Chicago, the Roman Catholic church, the Peloponnesian Wars, the Ford Motor Company, the Monroe Doctrine, the Panama Canal, the Hawaiian Islands, the Matterhorn, the Philippines, the Empire State...

Hi allI agree with the previous posters. Using the articles, especially the indefinite articles a and an, is perhaps the most difficult aspect of English grammar. Although the grammar is mostly so simple that it couldn't be made much simpler even if English were an artificial language, there...

Hi to both Grammar Geek and Clive,I agree that only lots of experiences in English can help me not to use "the" mechanically, and I'm very grateful to both of you for all your help.

Starstuff wrote:Thanks for the explanations, Gramma Geek. (by the way do I need "the" here? I'm pointing at your explanations.) You are right, Starstuff. Since you are referring to the specific explanations of Grammar Greek, you can use the article "the".

Grammar Geek wrote: Does your boss have that authority? What authority? The authority to fire someone.Oh I think this might be a better way to ask my question:ie:Does your boss have (no the) authority to fire someone? Without "the", I know the sentence sounds unnatural and is grammartically...