In Articles^x, Countable nouns^x, Clauses^x

Hi, Unfakeable demonstrations of a superiority that has as least some underlying genetic component are almost unfailingly attractive to the opposite sex. 1. Does 'a' there indicate it is a special kind of superiority and not the superiority in the general sense? Yes 2. Would you say...

Hi, How2die had this sentence in his post and I want to ask some questions on it. You can kindly give a general answer that will encompass all or answer individually. Unfakeable demonstrations of a superiority that has as least some underlying genetic component are almost unfailingly...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game. Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the 'changes'. This was meant to be just a game, not for those wo take everything seriously, and of course in this game...

Mr. M. Lately I think I am seeing more of what looks be uncountable nouns followed by what looks to be retrictive clauses and precede by the indefinite article "a." Is that right? How about this? IS THIS RIGHT? A beauty of the Princess of Bigman's land is exquisite. Can an...

Although grammar books say the indefinite article should not be used with un countable nouns, there are many instances in which it is. In your sentence it is the phrase from God and the relative clause that is by faith... that introduces the article. The writer refers to a special kind of...

Thank you so much. Can it be like this? The weather in London today is fine -- making a specific reference. The weather is fine -- making an implicitly understood specific reference. (there is no need for a restrictive clause "in London" because the speaker and the listener have an...

3-- ok 4-- ok 5-- NO. Hard to tell. 'Giotto' is spelled wrong. Probably they want 'are'. 6-- NO 7-- NO 8-- NO (there should be no finite verb in that clause at all) 9-- hint: 'apart from' is wrong 10- NO 11- all I can see is wayward commas an overly casual vocabulary 12- NO. no 'the' ...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one. Children of poor social classes in Dickens' times...