By Determiners, Nouns

Hi everyone,I have just started my online TESOL course and, as a native Englih speaker, am struggling already! I'm sure I wasn't taught half of this stuff at school!!!I have much respect for all the Non native English speakers doing TESOL courses!Ok my question, in the following sentence "This...

Kooyeen wrote:Hi,I don't think grammar in writing is different from grammar in speech at all. You can write the way you speak and speak the way you write. So... what is that QCA really doing? Nothing, I guess. Playing cards instead of working, LOL. I agree in some part, Kooyeen. I think that...

triangle is a singular count noun. It must have a determiner. 'triangle of death' is not a proper noun, either, so a possible reason to omit an article is thereby eliminated. CJ I don't know which post you are referring to, but you can use the search box at the upper right of the page....

An international currency system is necessary for economic exchanges between countries to work properly. An international currency system is necessary for proper economic action among countries. An international currency system is necessary for effective economic action among countries. An...

T509 wrote:I'll make the question clearer. A) determiner + adverb + past participle (functioning as adjective) + noun B) determiner + noun + adverb + past participle (functioning as adjective) {+ prepositional phrase (related to the p.p.)} No question about A. In B, would the order be...

I'll make the question clearer. A) determiner + adverb + past participle (functioning as adjective) + noun B) determiner + noun + adverb + past participle (functioning as adjective) {+ prepositional phrase (related to the p.p.)} No question about A. In B, would the order be unnatural or...

the order of adjectives in most grammars: determiner + opinion + size + age + shape + color + origin + material + purpose + NOUN What I want to ask our native speakers is whether or not the order comes out naturally as they speak. Or is it something they have to learn afterwards like us,...

Good question. It points out some of the awkwardness, not to say fallacies, associated with some of our usual explanations of the grammatical machinery of English! It is true that it is difficult to find a noun phrase which can easily and smoothly replace meeting you in the example...

It's "Get out of here", not "Get out from here", whether you put the bad language in or not. But of also means from then why couldn't from be used instead of of? I think it will affect the flow of the sentence. the hell is a vulgar intensifier showing extreme anger, most often used directly...

I'm surprised the censoring software didn't replace that with its usual ***. It's "Get out of here", not "Get out from here", whether you put the bad language in or not. the hell is a vulgar intensifier showing extreme anger, most often used directly after a question word or after the...