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Re: adj or adv

MrPedantic — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:29:41 GMT

Hello Anon,

"Sherrie" is a proper noun; "employee" is an ordinary noun; "is" is a verb; "a" is an indefinite article.

Best wishes,

MrP

Re: "The pair without rim/a rim/ the rim is mine."

Ant_222 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:51:52 GMT

Thanks!

BTW, I could think of this reasoning of the definite article:

There are only two pairs glasses, of them has a rim. So, there's only one rim and it can be called "the rim". And the other pair of glasses is without this rim. Pretty weird...Â

Re: a latest MP3 player which he had looked forward to

Mister Micawber — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:05:05 GMT

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No; without the word, he could acquire it in another manner; or maybe he just wants to look at it. Existential 'there' also seems odd in your sentence, as does the indefinite article before 'latest'.

Nature

natybrazil — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:46:36 GMT

Hello!

I've learned that we don't use the definite article "the" before the word nature.
This morning I came across this sentence: "Do not throw trash in the nature".
Is it possible? Is it correct to drop the definite article in this sentence?

Thanks!

Re: Article not needed?

Clive — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:42:14 GMT

Hi,
Please tell me why no article is needed here. You need an article.

we will meet on the second Saturday night ( from my birthday ).

I think we usually place the definite article 'the' before situations like this.

He is the second-tallest person I have ever met. This is fine (but use a hyphen to make a compound adjective).

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Definite article before proper holiday names

Clive — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:37:50 GMT

Hi,
Can we put the definite article before holiday names. I think Mr.M (I think it's him) told us something like we can put the indeinite article 'a' before them if we. if I could use this phrase, second-categorize the name like "a Father's Day without a loving heart toward your father is ...", but can we put 'the' before it if we do anything?

I think I have heard this being used with the definite article and without often. Why is that? Isn't that a proper name like "Teacher's Day"?

the Passover and Passover You hear both, for this particular holiday. The names of some holidays are quite idiomatic. However, here are some general comments.

Let's consider Christmas Day as an example. Here are some things that we can say.
Tomorrow is Christmas Day. I love Christmas Day. These examples are the normal way of referring to holidays, ie no article.

However, more infrequently, we say things like this.
I remember the Christmas Day that my grandmother died. This refers to a definite/specific Christmas Day.

In my opinion, a Christmas Day away from your family is very sad. This is an indefinite/general reference.

Best wishes, Clive

Article not needed?

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:25:33 GMT

Hi,
Please tell me why no article is needed here.

we will meet on second Saturday night.

I think we usually place the definite article 'the' before situations like this.

He is the second tallest person I have ever met.

Different situation??

Definite article before proper holiday names

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:20:57 GMT

Re: Why definite article?

Yoong Liat — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:30:58 GMT

My apologies.

The first word I saw when you responded to my post is 'right'. I misinterpreted it as you meant you were right.

Re: Why definite article?

Marius Hancu — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:28:10 GMT

I told you already you're right. To me, the discrepancy in those stats is quite indicative of that.