By Countable nouns, Pronouns

Mistakes made by Chinese Learners

Hi everyoneI 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 transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Subject verb agreement

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 already been prepared. Come and help yourself to...

any in summary

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 plural/uncountable noun. Does it mean that the verb...

Re: Is this a good basic explanation of the pronouns 'one'?

use one to refer back to countable noun antecedents.

Re: it and never they

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'. It's the same, for example, as talking about 'their...

Re: which word would you use

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 both) 'down' means 'writing in a direction from top to...

Re: How would you rephrase this?

Hi, Knowing the word English is an uncountable noun, is not it awkward to use the pronoun "it" for it? It is getting better.

Re: why not need for "the"

You could use 'the' as in They are the names of towns in the area however there's no need. Names is a countable noun used in the plural form so it is not necessary to have a determiner , such as the definite article, preceding it and from the context (sorry you didn't provide the whole text)...

Re: Grammatical questions

Hello Guest Since this is for an exam, I don't feel I should give detailed replies. But you may wish to consider: 1. Why the following sentences are ungrammatical: a) Never watch I television. b) Which programmes watched you? Look up Inversion in your grammar book. a) Would you like an...

Re: To Mod Mr Micawber: each and each of

Hi Jeff, I almost missed this one, even with the title. Moderators (at least this one) often have time only to look down the 'Replies' column to see which new posts are unanswered-- but you 'answered' yourself twice! Now let's see-- We can't really compare 'all (of)' with 'each (of)'...