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Re: Please correct my essay thanks my friends!!

26TMNTJG2PG — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:28:04 GMT

Dipsik
Could you please explain to me why you didnÂ´t correct the indefinite article before the word kids (second paragraph, first line)?

You are right the 'a' before 'kids' should not be there. I missed out. Thank you. The original poster, please note.

Dipsik
I would also write seriously, instead of the word "serious" you used (the latter is only used in informal English - at least as far as I know...)

The part in question is

"The streets practically were practically flooded but not serious enough to cause a total flooding or some any tragedy" and you have a point here as 'seriously' will be another adverb modifying the verb 'were flooded' but I used the adjective there to be illiptical for 'the floods were not serious enough' to be natural.

Re: SUPERATIVE?

Avangi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:37:24 GMT

Anonymous
Thank you Why one has an article and one doesn't?

The most erroneous concepts

These/They are most/very erroneous concepts.

Is the word 'most' here is not a superlative? When is it an adjective and when is it a superlative?

He is the most handsome man I have ever met.

First, let me call your attention to CB's correction. "Very" is an adverb, not an adjective, and it probably always was. "Most" is an adjective when it modifies a noun (Most people can swim.), but in the two quite different usages we've been talking about here, it's an adverb.

1. This is a most beautiful rose. ("most beautiful" = "very beautiful", singular rose, indefinite article)
     These are most beautiful roses. ("most beautiful" = "very beautiful,"  plural roses, no article)
     These are some most beautiful roses. ("most beautiful" = "very beautiful," plural roses, optional indefinite article)

2. This is the most beautiful rose in the garden. ("most beautiful" = superlative, singular rose,  definite article)
     These are two of the most beautiful roses in the garden. ("most beautiful" = superlative, plural roses, definite article)

Please note that your examples, This is a most erroneous concept, and These are most erroneous concepts are of the first type, and are not superlatives. You could say, These are some most erroneous concepts. The "some" is optional.

Best wishes, - A.

Re: Doc, is this a placebo?

Yankee — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:27:07 GMT

Jackson6612
Please correct the following sentences:

Patient: Doc, is this a placebo?
Doc: No, it's a pharmacologically active.
Patient: I thought it was an inert.

You should delete the indefinite article in the second and third sentences.

- "pharmacologically active" = adverb + adjective (i.e. there is no noun)

- "inert" = adjective (i.e. there is no noun)

Re: Use of thereof in the first amendment

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:50:15 GMT

I think there are a couple way to look at this. One is the use of the word 'thereof' and what it means. It is defined as such:

thereof -adverb: of or concerning this, that or it

When the word 'thereof' is used it gets its meaning entirely from the word to which it refers. So in a sense you must ask 'Of what?' in order to understand what it means.

free exercise of what? of religion

What kind of establishment? one of religion

The indefinite articles a and an are defined as such: weakened variation of one; one, lone, single So my use of 'one' should be correct there.

Another thing you must do is put it into context. The Bill of Rights is a document which defines the rights and liberties of the people(individuals) and Congress' limitations on abridging or limiting them. If you read the phrase as such:

B) ''Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise of an establishment of religion; ...''

What are the rights of the people with regard to religion? This defines rights and liberties as they apply only to 'establishments' and not individuals. If you also use it that way then there would be no need for the Free Exercise clause. If in the Establishment Clause Congress cannot make law which even respects(concerns, regards, deals with, relates to) 'an establishment of religion' then why would they need to tell us that Congress cannot make law prohibiting 'free exercise of an establishment of religion'? We already know they cannot prohibit 'free exercise of an establishment' because they can't even make law with respect to it! I hope that makes sense.

Also, you could look at The Constitution for other examples of the word 'thereof' and see how it is used.

For example:

Article. I. - The Legislative Branch
Section 2 - The House

"When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof ..."

Executive Authority of what? 'any State'

Section 3 - The Senate

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, (chosen by the Legislature thereof,)"

Legislature of what? 'each State'

"...if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof"

The Executive of what? 'any State'

Section 4 - Elections, Meetings

"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;""

Legislature of what? 'each State'

Section 8 - Powers of Congress

"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof,..."

Value of what? 'Money'

"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."

Department or Officer of what? 'the Government of the United States'

Article. II. - The Executive Branch

Section 1 - The President

"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof..."

Legislature of what? 'Each State'

So on and so forth until...

Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."

Free exercise of what? 'religion'

I hope this all makes sense.

part of speech of only

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:40:22 GMT

"I talked to him for only a short time".

What is the part of speech of only in above sentence. I wonder that "a" is an indefinite article, so if "only" is an adverb, what does it modify for? I'm really confused!

Thank you for your answers!

Re: A doubt!

Clive — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:08:15 GMT

Hi,

Consider this sentence.

He has a very good knowledge.

What is the function of the aritcle 'a' in the sentence?
( I know that the articles can function as adjectives but never as adverbs..Well, the case here is different, isn't it?....Can an indefinite article modify an uncountable noun? )

Article use can be difficult to learn, and to explain, as you perhaps are aware. Let me offer a few comments.

We don't say 'He has a knowledge'

We do say 'He has a knowledge of French, but he does not have a knowledge of Russian or a knowledge of Chinese.' In this context, we are thinking of and speaking of several kinds of knowledge.

We don't do this with the plural , eg we don't say He has knowledges of Spanish and Japanese.

We wouldn't normally say the sentence you are offering as an example, because it does not specify a type of knowledge. However, we could readily say He has a very good knowledge of English.

Best wishes, Clive

A doubt!

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:43:02 GMT

Hi!

Consider this sentence.

He has a very good knowledge.

What is the function of the aricle 'a' in the sentence?
( I know that the articles can function as adjectives but never as adverbs..Well, the case here is different, isn't it?....Can an indefinite article modify an uncountable noun? )

I am quite confused!

Please help me out!!

Thanks for your time..

Trouble understanding this...

SeekerOfPeace — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:20:03 GMT

Right or wrong?

âFor a moment¹, I even thought² that this was some sort of test³ and that this woman was someone from the head office⁴, testing my loyalty⁵.â

1: Prepositional phrase used adverbially.

2: Main clause

3: Dependant clause

4: Dependant clause

5: Participial phrase

For: preposition,

A: indefinite determinant

Moment: noun

I: personal pronoun, 1^st person,

Even: adverb, expressing surprise

That: relative pronoun?

This: pronoun

Was: L.V. simple past

Some: determiner, determines âsortâ, indefinite article

Sort: noun

Of: preposition

Test: noun

And: subordinating conjunction, (I thought and could only be used as a coordinating conjunction??)

This: definite article

Woman: noun

Was: L.V. simple past

Someone: indefinite pronoun

From: preposition, links someone and head office

Head office: compound noun+ head used as an adjective rather than a noun here.

Testing: present participle (verb?)

My: determiner

Loyalty: noun

Re: Plural or singular verb?

Magda — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:23:20 GMT

Thanks, Marius.
I will keep this rule in mind. What I am puzzled by, however, is the fact that either of the examples you gave me doesn't refer exactly to the sentence I gave.
In your first example, we deal with proper names, no articles there, and in the second one, with one noun in plural and the other in singular.
If I kept this rule in my sentence, I should write "He doesn't even know what an adjective and adverb are," which sounds strange to me because of the indefinite article.
Of course, I will take GG advice and write "adjectives" and "adverbs", but that doesn't clarify my doubts I had in case of the original sentence .

Best regards
Magda

Re: how big a problem

paco2004 — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:08:59 GMT

Hello VC

"Such", "so", "as", "too", "how" and "what" work as adverbs. But when they are used as a modifier of an attributive adjective (=an adjective that comes before a noun), they behave as a pre-determiner (=a determiner that comes before an indefinite article). Those pre-determiners are divided into two groups according to whether, when it comes before the article, the pre-determiner takes out the adjective with (just like the pied piper took out children from a city).

The first group (non pied-piping adverbs) : such, what : (a such brave girl) -> such a brave girl (a what brave girl) -> what a brave girl.
The second group (pied-piping adverbs) : so, as, too, how : (a so brave girl) -> so brave a girl (an as brave girl as an Amazon) -> as brave a girl as an Amazon (a too brave girl to be a wife) -> too brave a girl to be a wife (a how brave girl) -> how brave a girl

Hope this helps you.

paco