By Clauses, Definite articles

You would usually have an accompanying clause that indicates when something else happened.You would usually have a when-something-else-happened clause that goes with it.Very informal.It's not restricted to the indefinite article. CJ

Hi AwenceThe sentence is less than perfect to me as well. It begins with a subordinate clause introduced with a causal for and the next clause begins with and, a coordinating conjunction. After these comes yet another subordinate clause, a relative clause introduced by whose. There is no main...

I think there are a couple way to look at this. One is the use of the word 'thereof' and what it means. It is defined as such: thereof -adverb: of or concerning this, that or itWhen the word 'thereof' is used it gets its meaning entirely from the word to which it refers. So...

Hi, Articles are tricky for me, too. I hope you don't mind my answering your question ... I'm taking advantage of your post to have some feedback on my understanding of this case of "a" VS "the."To me the first sentence is the correct one because they're not talking about a generic fight, but...

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...

Here's what I would say:We are going to stay in/at a nice hotel, just like famous actors.I wouldn't use the same as here at all. I might say: We stayed at the same hotel as famous actors. You have an indefinite article in the main clause, though.I am interested in learning foreign languages and...

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. After some...

Zj.frank wrote:Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes "the few"? If...

Hi VTIf you want a continuous tense in both clauses, you should give the reason for that to make the sentence correct:He is wearing a raincoat because it is raining.Of your sentences b, c and d, b and c are wrong. Sentence d (the first one) is correct in the unlikely situation that the raincoat...

Hi, 1. Not every person who is indicted ____________. (A) of guilt (B) is guilty (C) to be guilty (D) guilty ricky: i put (D) but the answer is (B). why? "Who is indicted' is just a subordinate clause. Let's remove it. Not every person . . . . You need a verb form here, so that's why B is...