By Abstract nouns, Prepositions

Hi,I understand Espeland's question regarding the phrase 'of a hot day' that specifically restricts the meaning of Evening since there is only one evening in a day; thus, The must be provided such as "The Evening of a Day of Walking" in Les Miserables - by Victor Hugo. In fact, I have seen...

Ok, I think I have to just accept that it is how it is...to me, leaving out the article was so astonishing here because in "evening of a hot day", the evening is defined. And obviously this phenomenon occurs more frequently when the abstract noun is subject or at the beginning of the sentence....

CB, I hate to disagree, because your comments are always so very helpful and appropriate, and you are such a valuable resource on the forum. Nevertheless, I don't think any poetic license whatever is involved here. I believe the explanation lies elsewhere. The sentence in question sounds...

It doesn't work to omit the article with big tower because tower is a concrete noun. It works to omit the with evening because evening is an abstract noun. (You can't actually touch an evening as if it were an object.) Abstract nouns in English very frequently appear without an article,...

All of your examples are gerunds if we stick to modern terminology. Forget about the terminology verbal noun. It's total garbage! It has many different definitions, depending on the author and when the grammar book was written. _____________ The modern definition is given at...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

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...

It appears to be a trend of current English that THE is being dropped off from the phrases in the construct of "preposition+THE+abstract noun+of". Paco, I think you're onto something. It certainly rings true to me, though I haven't made a formal study of it, nor heard of any. I'm not...