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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 a conversation between two people talking about the third character. It's an old British literary...

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...

Hi Believer Don'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...

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...

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...

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…’...

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...

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...