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Thank you. If I take out the possessive part of the name "***'s" and have the generic word/noun "restaurant" in small letter intact, then should I put the definite article "the" or indefinite article "a" in front of it?Where is the/a?? Chinese Take-Out...

If there is a chain of restaurants with the same name, you are looking for a Lee's Chinese Take-Out restaurant.If there is only one, you are looking for Lee's Chinese Take-Out restaurant.___ That in mind, let's consider your questions.There used to be a ***'s Chinese Take-Out...

. There are several determiners with which we do not use an article. These include the demonstratives (this, that), the possessives (my, her, its, etc), some quantifiers (no, every, each, etc) and the cardinal number 'one'.There is no TV here. There is not a TV here. The TV is not...

Hmmm. I thought that a + singular countable noun was the same as zero article + plural countable noun. Why wouldn't the hobbits look around for other(s)' grimy hands and not their ones? In the original sentence, "hands" doesn't have a determiner either... Having...

Haha, you gave me a funny picture in my head. If you told Paul to wash a weary face, he would probably be looking around for someone else's weary face to wash because you can't tell him to wash his own face that way; a tells the listener that we are being generic. If you wanted him to...

and so forth. They are not adjectives, because they can be substituted for and cannot co-occur with another determiner such as an article or a demonstrative.So the answer to your question: "So would you say this particular grammar point is widely accepted by native-speakers and/or...

Whether or not people choose to accept it is irrelevant, it's a fact. Have a look at this:smooth coatchihuahuadomesticateddogcaniscaninaecanidaecarnivoramammalchordataanimal Now when you see a chihuahua ask the owner if it is a "chordata". Most would say no, it's a...

Possessive adjectives are just one class of determiners. Articles, demonstrative adjectives, numbers, and quantifiers are other classes of determiners.my, his, ..., a, an, the, this, that, these, those, one, two, three, ..., some, all, every, many, ... are all determiners. So there is no...

All countable singular nouns in English require a determiner (article, possessive adjective, etc.). definition is a noun. definition is countable. definition is singular. Therefore, definition requires a determiner. My preference is to write this: Please explain the definition...

Well, the excerpt you have posted is not very well thought through. Possessives here are obviously an open class-- my friend's, John's, Mary's, my dog's, his aardvark's, ad infinitum-- as are cardinal and ordinal numbers-- eight-hundred-and-forty-first, eight-hundred-and-forty-second....However,...