"I live in a small house with my parents and my brother and sister" In the sentence above, are supposed to use and article or a possessive pronoun before brother and sister ? ...or while talking about father... "I have a father.

Sentences like "I live with my parents and brother and sister" or while talking about fathers or mothers mentioning them time after time, do we use a definite article or are we supposed to use a possessive pronoun each time? e.g.

Whenever you say " a few of " (or " some of ", " a lot of ", etc) it has to be followed by one of the following: a definite article + plural noun phrase > the a plural object pronoun > us / you / them a

Hi. What do we have to do when we are confronted with a situation that seems to offer two viable (correct?) choices like this one? I think the choice is between making the underlined part possessive or attributive (to make it serve adjectivally?

<< the end of the virtuous life of Abigail will be grave. >> Please educate me about noun phrases. I'm still trying, but I'm slow to catch on. I never heard of them until I joined EF. Any group of words beginning with a noun is

Hi Eff, Some do, some don't.. 1) From time to time, the palace is a venue for performances by costumed actors. (OR: COSTUMED ACTORS PERFORMANCES??) That's fine as it is. If you were to use 'costumed actors performances', you

Thank you. If I take out the possessive part of the name "***'s" and have the generic word/noun "restaurant" in small letter intact, then should I put the definite article "the" or indefinite article "a"

"why was late reply" is not a sentence. It has no meaning. In English a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (. ; : ? !) In addition, you seem to have omitted a definite or indefinite article or a

Only a couple: 1. On yesterday 's morning - 'Yesterday' doesn't take the possessive form when used with 'morning'; you can say 'yesterday's news' or 'yesterday's newspapers' for example, but here

The word laugh is either a noun or a verb, never an adjective or adverb. If it follows a possessive pronoun (which could be substituted with the definite article) it must be a noun. Tearfully , i hung up the phone. Words with the "ly"