In Definite articles^x, Plurals^x, Clauses^x

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. After some...

Zj.frank wrote:Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes "the few"? If...

To pick up on some of your other points: Linguistic differences between languages have different degrees of cultural implication, e.g. Significant cultural implication1. The distinction in standard Russian, Italian, French, etc. between the second person singular and plural pronouns. "You" is...

The fourth should be the most straightforward-- it is a restrictive (defining) clause by virtue of the that and the lack of a preceding comma, not to mention the fact that there is no other information presented which could define these public funds.Compare:4a-- There will be an investigation of...

Since funds in the sentence is plural, the definite article is not necessary; however, it certainly can be used, even if this is the opening sentence of an article. As I stated above, the public funds need not refer to a previous mention-- it is defined by the following nonfinite clause (given...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one. Children of poor social classes in Dickens' times would be...