Hi, I think that sometimes the pronoun "one" is not ok for some reason, but... Don't take the blue book, take the red one. <-- Ok. This is a normal sentence. There is no reason why you should consider British English better than

In grammar, "an array" or "the array" are singular. "The arrays" is plural. Array is a countable noun. That is why they use the article "an" or pronoun "one" before "array", and the

These are often called "uncountable nouns" (or "mass nouns"). For example, you can count apples -- one apple, two apples, three apples -- but you can't count "informations". There are lots and lots of them in

Hi everyone I just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far: Intonation

Please kindly indicate the correct answers for the following questions and justifications to the answers. 1. They do these things so quietly that nobody is ever sure of what (is/ are) happening. 2. Various kinds of food (has /have) been

I have gone through a lot of the old posts on the topic any . This is my understanding of any usage. Any can be followed by a plural/uncountable/singular noun. 1. When any is used in interogative or negative form, it is usually followed by a

use one to refer back to countable noun antecedents.

Which part of the sentence did your teacher mark as being incorrect? Thorsten T. Rufus wrote back: She underlined the following parts: It is very important that Scottish finance system not be ruled by ... her. It won't have any influence on my

Hi guys, I have three uncountables with possessives or "look-to-be" quantifiers. Should they all be referred with the pronoun "it"? 1) their furniture 'Furniture' is not a countable noun. Say 'Your furniture is very nice. I like it' .

Hi, She needs less/fewer/little reminders to clean her room.(less or fewer) 'fewer' with a countable noun ....work with in/within/ a group.(within) 'within'. 'with in' is not grammatical He writes his notes down/down on the page.(I think