By Articles, Determiners

Hi, Financial minister had held the meeting with the senior officials. Is ‘had held’ is correct, I think only held should be there 'Had held' is a correct tense. You can use any tense (past / present / future / continuous / etc.) in a sentence like this, but whether it will be...

Hi, Should I treat what is in a pair of quotation marks just like an adjective without any difference in terms of whether to place an article or not? Yes. I feel like you have to have an article, 'a' or 'the' or 'an', before a quoted content acting as an adjective for a...

Dear Sirs, In American business English, we would not say this. If "Dear Sirs" is a common way to start a business letter where you are, then it's fine. But if you are writing to your own boss, wouldn't you use his/her name? This is to inform you that My Air ticket's...

Yes. My answer is pretty oblique. I don't think the function of determiners is to modify at all. Underlined words show the correct use of apostrophes.<<I thought the "new mother's room" was for nursing mothers.>>I don't think so. The room is new, not the...

Hey there!Your example sentence is very good, and the article is in exactly the right place. Articles can also be referred to as 'determiners,' since they determine specifically which object (noun) is being talked about. For example, when talking about a boy riding his bicycle, using...

You could try color-coding your answers this way, for example:(1) the verbs; (2) the nouns; (3) the adjectives; (4) the adverbs; (5) the prepositions; and (6) the conjunctionsThe usage of the word 'the' in your sentences would normally be referred to as definite article or determiner.

Hi again, Here are a few comments on your posts. I saw the following entry in one of the ESL websites regarding the use of articles. "The" is required when the noun it refers to represents something in the abstract: This "rule" sounds very odd to me. Do you mean a noun like, for example,...

All countable singular nouns in English require a determiner (article, possessive adjective, etc.). definition is a noun. definition is countable. definition is singular. Therefore, definition requires a determiner. My preference is to write this: Please explain the definition...

When do we use the word 'service' with an article and when do not?Use a determiner (which could be an article) when you're talking about something countable -- when the thought in your head is of something countable; otherwise don't use a determiner. Only you know what you're talking about. ...

Well, the excerpt you have posted is not very well thought through. Possessives here are obviously an open class-- my friend's, John's, Mary's, my dog's, his aardvark's, ad infinitum-- as are cardinal and ordinal numbers-- eight-hundred-and-forty-first, eight-hundred-and-forty-second....However,...