Greetings, Tina, Mister Micawber's answers are completely relevant, but let me make some additional remarks: 1. A time of prosperity and peace - is a noun phrase you analysed absolutely correctly. In general, noun phrases may have the

Hi, I have some questions regarding determiners. Should there be 'the' or zero article for these nouns? Can you please explain why 'the' is or is not required before these nouns as marked below? 1.Although there is such a thing as

Humanity's peregrination through(out) the ages ? Through is the only choice here. Through is used in reference to a movement or passage that proceeds linearly; throughout to a movement or passage that proceeds spatially. In your example,

Hi, Schools getting more points in the tables for "hard" subjects, including maths, physics and languages, but fewer points for so-called "soft" subjects such as media studies. I usually expect to see an article or a determiner

Yes, there should be an article or other determiner before 'Danish'. Even the most professional publishers sometimes fail at proofreading.

It occurs to me that making the nouns singular forces the use of an article. For example, "...chanted slogans" is okay but it has to be "..chanted a/the slogan." Similarly, in Mr. Tom's example "...barricaded

Mr. M. Is correct. The words "a, an, and the" are also called articles. A and an are called indefinite articles; "the" is called the definite article. You can read about articles in this article ! A determiner is a class of

Hi, I saw your post after I had replied to Nona's. Jackson: Please excuse me; I have taken some liberties in interpreting what you have written. No problems. Q1: Who told you that there is no freedom of speech

Am I seriously wrong if I tell her that SINGULAR REGULAR NOUNS (I'm not talking about proper nouns, plural nouns, or pronouns) DO NOT START SENTENCES, but follow an article or a word like "some," "one," "that,"

Hello,I am trying to teach my 3 Chinese students to perform grammatical analysis on English sentences (or what some people call "diagramming a sentence"). I am nothing close to a qualified English teacher; I only come from a heavily