Here is some food for thought. When each of the following example used singular verb, does it mean "one insect", or as I said, a collective species?: In all the examples you have quoted, each mention of "roaches"

Hi. What is written in Malachi 1:14 of the Bible, New International Version, is this. 14 "Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE TH Present Simple Tense - In case of preceded by the third person singular, the verb that changes in form is Verb to be and Verb to have - In case we add

either "learners of the English language," or "English language learners." Why is article the essential here? There is only one English language. e.g. I'm learning Chinese language these days. Is there any need to specify

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat

1a) We painted the red door. 1b) We painted the door red. 1a) We painted the red door. "We" is NP consists of the head noun "we" which is pronoun functioning as subject. Painted is VP consisted of the head verb

Which season do you like the best? Is the definite article needed in the above sentence? I personly feel that best is an adverb in the sentence and no definite article is needed. But you can see hundreds of sentences like above if you google. Are

I agree with the previous post that the original author's translation isn't precisely parallel. "Study" may either be a noun or a verb, but if you want to use "exploring," then you should use "studying" too to

1. Some boy or the other have eaten my lunch. - This is not correct as we don't need the definite article before other, and the verb should be in the 3rd person. This should be: Some boy or other has eaten my lunch. Sentences a) and b)

1. The use of the indefinite article implies that more than one shop are involved. On second thought, I'm trying to envisage a conversation with "it's a little shop of my own"... Perhaps it could be used even if you have only