By Countable nouns, Determiners

Re: in quotation marks

Hi, Should I treat what is in a pair of quotation marks just like an adjective without any difference in terms of whether to place an article or not? Yes. I feel like you have to have an article, 'a' or 'the' or 'an', before a quoted content acting as an adjective for a...

Re: Denoting Past possibility : "Could be" or "could have been"

Grammar Geek,You are right, voyage is a countable noun so requires a determiner. Also, I am sorry for the typo "dengerous".Best Regards,Sabya

Re: there is not/ there is no

CalifJim wrote:difference is a countable noun. Countable nouns in the singular require a determiner. no is a determiner. not is not a determiner. not negates the verb.So you can have the positive statement There is with the determiner no and noun the difference.Or you can have the negative...

Re: what could come after a preposition?

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase, usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective. A relative clause may be added. The noun itself may be a gerund. If the element after the candidate for a...

Re: there is not/ there is no

difference is a countable noun. Countable nouns in the singular require a determiner. no is a determiner. not is not a determiner. not negates the verb. So you can have the positive statement There is with the determiner no and noun the difference. Or you can have the negative statement...

Re: Beauty and the beast... why "the" before "beast" only?

Beauty is ambiguous. It's both a proper noun, and thus the name of a person, and an abstract noun referring to the property of being beautiful. The most usual meaning of the beauty is the beautiful woman. the beast is that particular beast that the story is about, not just any beast, i.e.,...

Re: You only shot a single dear.

deer. Singular countable nouns in English must have a determiner. single is an adjective, not a determiner. It has nothing to do with meaning. That is, just because an adjective means the same thing or something similar to the determiner does not mean you can leave out the...

Re: Ｔｈｉｓ　ｉｓ　ＮＯ　ｅａｓｙ　ｔａｓｋ

Hi, Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task". What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence? My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task". But I understand that "task" is a Countable Noun and if I am right, I think we...

Ｔｈｉｓ　ｉｓ　ＮＯ　ｅａｓｙ　ｔａｓｋ

Hello I'm an English learner from Japan and I have a question.Please look the sentence "This is NO easy task". What part of speech is "NO" in the sentence? My English-Japanese dictionaries say this NO is an Adjective because it modifies and negates the phrase "easy task". But I understand that...

Re: software name?

Hi, 1. How do you decide on how to put English articles in front of (software game??) names like Playstation 3? Do you have to make a decision as to whether it is used as a software or used a game first? Maybe, the rule is if used as a game, put the article in; whereas, if it is used as a sacred...