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quote user mikado He is a Mr Godfrey Norton of the Inner Temple Sir A Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes A Scandal in Bohemia quote In older literature the pronoun one or the indefinite article was used before a person s name when the character was first introduced to the reader The setting usually was...

Hi Teachers I m doing literature review for a paper and have a question When I say In Paco 2007 x or the simulated values showed similar patterns as x or the observed values The simulated values were averaged over a or the study area do I have to use the definite article the for all cases...

Hi BelieverDon t look for logic with regard to articles in English Adjectival attributes very often bring on an indefinite article A new culture was born A relative clause may do the same We need a culture that is totally different from what we have now When an adjectival attribute refers to a...

The use of the zero article in English depends on the kind of noun this article refers to Within your second sentence I like the teachers of my school the noun teacher is a countable concrete noun and thus requires the definite article The noun evidence on the other hand is a non count abstract...

the one in Literature and the another in Politics You don t want the the in either sentence one and another are just there to explain two Moreover the another is not correct you have both the definite article and an indefinite article

Hello MrP Thank you for your compliment But I need some literature material to prove my supposition By the way don t you think English is extraordinary among European languages in that they put an indefinite article even to predicate nouns English He is a student German Er ist Student French Il...

Thanks Eagle Paco and MisterM for all your painstaking posts Much to chew on 1 It s odd that both your and K s dictionaries give this structure which I seldom if ever hear Maybe it s more common elsewhere Sorry all I should have been clearer I meant the Child as he was construction seemed unusual...

Dave First of all and even when everyone is surely aware of this I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good I m not a grammarian or a linguist It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a language that is not even my own in depth when I lack...

AT JOHN 1 1 the King James Version reads In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God Trinitarians claim that this means that the Word Greek ho lo gos who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God himself Someone who is with another person cannot also be that...