By Articles, Nominative

Thank you, Mr. M. That is as you said, I think. As to the first one, I think like this. His dog is a happiness. (a kind of happiness his dog is.) As to the second sentence, why no article here? I think it is because eventhough it is the same predicate nominative as the one above, it is...

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns:I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to emphasise the...

Paco2004 wrote:"The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb and...

"The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb and OED's grammarians...

What is the word sucks in "Homework sucks"? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck?This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is "Does an English verb...

1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN = main verb DOWN = adverb particle THE = definite article RADIO = noun (used as an...

Dear teachers,Would you please tell me if my analysis is correct ?1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning.MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = determinative adjective (quantifier)BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliaryNOT = ?? TURN = main verb DOWN = preposition or...

Hello guys I know we had a conclusion on the subject but I'd like to put some additional information. The article below is a description in a book (written in Japanese) by Late Dr Toshio Nakao, a scholar who taught the history of the English language in several colleges in Japan and in Great...

Yes, "hoi", of course... article in the plural, nominative. I learned ancient Greek in my teens, but that's long ago now... Thank you, MrP. You are impressive when it comes to words and languages (among other things of course, and I couldn't begin to name them... the use of I/me for certain ...