In Determiners^x, Articles^x

You're absolutely right. The original sentence may have led the hobbits to go looking for others' dirty hands to wash because the author chose to omit the word "your" before "grimy hands". As I said earlier, its seems like it was poetic license in that case,...

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...

I have to analyse the following sentence, but I'm really stuck..."Amanda's practical solutions of what had seemed an insoluble mystery descended on the family like a balm."I have to cut this sentence into constituents and cut those up in nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives,...

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...

Hi, Financial minister had held the meeting with the senior officials. Is ‘had held’ is correct, I think only held should be there 'Had held' is a correct tense. You can use any tense (past / present / future / continuous / etc.) in a sentence like this, but whether it will be...

Hi, Should I treat what is in a pair of quotation marks just like an adjective without any difference in terms of whether to place an article or not? Yes. I feel like you have to have an article, 'a' or 'the' or 'an', before a quoted content acting as an adjective for a...

Dear Sirs, In American business English, we would not say this. If "Dear Sirs" is a common way to start a business letter where you are, then it's fine. But if you are writing to your own boss, wouldn't you use his/her name? This is to inform you that My Air ticket's...