By Definite articles, Apostrophes

Others' would require an apostrophe. Other opinions is correct The opinions of others=others' opinions is also correct. The use of the definite article "the" is often quite tricky. I don't find it wrong either way.

Dear teachers, First, happy New Year to you all, and thank you for your kindness and dedication. I want to tell you that you've helped a lot throughout these years and I feel deeply endebted to you. My question for today is: Can I use the indefinite article with the genitive? Is it correct to...

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns:I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the...

Can anyone answer those questions categorically? I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the need (necesssity??) to have the indefinite article "a" and I think Mr. M said to the effect that in many...

I was looking at an exercise and my mind began to wonder why this is so. The "so" element dealt with why there are definite articles here. Do you need more context? the Zataory or Xelks the Fiwakos Club the Hions Let's assume that all the names above, which I made up, are the names of social...

In all due respect, G, shouldn't your sentence be "It has a better chance than the "small probability." Eventhough a phrase is in apostrophes, the rules regarding the placement of definite articles in front of nouns still apply for that too, isn't it? I am sorry it I sounded too picky. I just...

1-- Capitalize; if the quotation is set off syntactically from the matrix text by a comma, semicolon, or colon, the first word is capitalized, irrespective of its status in the original text. 2-- Mormons; no apostrophe 3-- Capitalize as in #1 4-- She is saying it. BrE (I believe) would...