By Abstract nouns

Hi, Here are a few comments. A: We arrived in time for the arrival of the train. Repetition (arrived . . . arrival) is not good style. B: Before dinner, there was an arrival of some expected visitors, coming to stay for a time in the house. I think in sentence A "the arrival...

A: We arrived in time for the arrival of the train. B: Before dinner, there was an arrival of some expected visitors, coming to stay for a time in the house. I think in sentence A "the arrival of the train" is transformed from the structure that "the train arrived" to make it...

" A dying of an old self and the rebirth of a new" Teachers, please help me with this. After studying how to use the articles, I still don't completely understand where I should use the definite article "the" and where the indefinite one "a". In the above sentence, the "dying" and the "rebirth"...

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/abstract-noun.html 'mate' is just a colloquial way of expressing "my friend".

would be really grateful if you could confirm whether the highighted words are abstract nouns: So he had to take some out; but then immediately another thought struck him, “How many of these things did women get through in a…what would you call it, ‘a session’?” AND “Byron mate,” Rory said...

Anonymous wrote: wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional...

Hello everybody. In Grammar, adverbial clauses have alternate structures, this means changing the structure of the clause into a new one, it can be either: coordinate clause, prepositional phrase with gerund or with abstract noun, participal phrase or an absolute constraction. We have the...

wussup everybody... i've got a Grammar exam at 14.00.. I really have no clue.. In Adverbial Clauses, we have a part called alternate structure, it's kinda changin' the subordinate clause into a new structure. This new structure is either : coordinate clause, prepositional phrase, participal...

If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers.Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement rather than object. shoot at is a prepositional verb with complement soldier. (I think you meant If I...

Hello Believer, Abstract nouns in the plural indicate an instance of the phenomena concerned: Whoever planted the bomb showed a total disregard for the safety of the public. I have experienced many injustices, or intensification of the phenomenon