In Nouns^x, Articles^x

Haha, you gave me a funny picture in my head. If you told Paul to wash a weary face, he would probably be looking around for someone else's weary face to wash because you can't tell him to wash his own face that way; a tells the listener that we are being generic. If you wanted him to...

Anton, You're right, it is not just poetic license. The author is making a non-count noun into a count noun by adding an article. He is being specific about this air for some reason. I think you're right on to think of it as a "chunk". I would guess he is "counting" a...

Unless you are talking about specific hands, you do not need an article of any sort. Generic plurals just don't need articles. I would guess that the author was looking for poetic writing, or else he would have probably added the pronoun "your" just as he did for "weary...

Hi, evetybody. Below is the third and so far the last question concerning LOTR: Tom Bombadil: "You shall clean grimy hads and wash your weary faces." Neither an article nor a pronoun modifies "hads". How is that possible? Thanks you very much in advance, Anton

Here is a question on which I have been wracking my brain for some time now and finally decided to write in. If we do not use an article before 'uncountable nouns and abstract nouns' why do we say  ' Can you give me a lift to the nearest tube station'                ...

Hi, I was wondering if you put words like "his" and "the" in front of a noun that is a variable noun, what then is the nature of the noun after having put those words. I know if you put the indefinite article 'a', then it becomes countable, but if we frame the noun...

Hi Your sentence is in the present perfect. " Have you ever had ..." " the feeling " is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not...

Hi, Please look at this and tell me if the indefinite article 'a' goes with the third and fourth underlined parts. Is there possible confusion? If yes, how would you resolve it in term of grammar and the sentence structure? Would you say ther article 'a' does not go with any...

Hi, Le us pretend I have a brand or type of lotion named "Dingding" and I think I can say this: Let us try some Dingding on my hand and check out if it really moisturalizes my hand as well as John said it could. If I say "some Dingding," could it mean some of the lotion in...

I don't have any rules handy, but 'the' before 'Playstation' sounds odd to me. I use Windows on my computer, not 'the Windows'. However, I might say that "the Windows system is not as good as people say". If you had one candy bar, 'a Snickers';...