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3a A cat ate the small animal 3b A cat is a small animal The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents In the sentence 3a we have s v do while in the second sentence 3b we have s v copular sP In 3a a cat is noun phrase a is determiner indefinite article cat is head noun of noun...

Hi all I ve been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now He s getting on in the years a couple years from retirement and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger His mother tongue is French but he s been teaching at...

quote user New2grammar stores and restaurants are seeing sharp decline in sales quote Just to clarify about the indefinite article it s OK to say stores and restaurants see sharp decline in sales without the article when using the present tense in fact it has the ring of a newspaper headline On...

Hi It depends on the context but I think that in most cases you d use 1 Your grammar is also a little awkward The definite article suggests that you are talking about a specific policeman The present tense suggests that you are describing his habits routine That all seems like something you would...

Believer wrote Side question A lot of dictionaries seem to indicate that the word subjunctive is usually precede with the article the but lately I seem to see cases where it is made plural or it with a in front of it like a subjunctive Are they correct are Hi BelieverGrammatical terms are often...

WANG CHUN wrote 1 Ancient and modern human beings use their great intelligence to invent machines that help people lead a comfortable and convenient life My problem with this sentence is that it is not possible for ancient human beings to do anything any more so using the present tense just...