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Anonymous wrote: Please answer the following questions: 1. Why the word 'police' does not have a determiner in front of it when my dictionary noted that it could be a singular noun? ... identified by police and parents as the day-care center owner... 'the' could be used, but is often...

Please answer the following questions: 1. Why the word 'police' does not have a determiner in front of it when my dictionary noted that it could be a singular noun? ... identified by police and parents as the day-care center owner... 2. Is the following adjectival construction acceptable? ......

I'm familiar with you're as an abbreviation for "you are" but have not heard of "your" being used that way. your is a determiner: belonging or relating to the person spoken to. "If you're going out, don't forget to take your keys."

Yes, of course. That's what WHL was saying. But they follow a pattern, and so that patten must have had a history, an evolution. Whole sets of phrases like that with parallel structure don't just appear out of nowhere. Something must have existed before it, and whatever it was, it probably...

Hi, you asked Which is the correct usage please: " I have ordered a / an MRI (magnetic resonance scan) and will review the patient following this." Rule: With single letters and groups of letters that are pronounced as individual letters, be guided by the pronunciation: a B road, a TUC leader;...