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

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

The number of of takes plural as usual When we are talking about amounts and quantities we usualyy use singular determiners, verbs and pronouns even if the noun is plural. Where is the five pounds I lent you? Twenty miles is a long way to walk.

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,"

. GENERALLY SPEAKING, the zero determiner is used in formal situations. Learners often use it when 'some' or 'any' is much more natural. Otherwise, there are no distinct rules of which I am aware. .

That changed with the arrival of wholesale fund ing , includ ing securitisation , and this reached £650bn in lending by 2007. funding is only marginally a gerund. I would consider it an ordinary noun in this sentence. Finnish grammar of

Strictly speaking, it is a determiner (or an article!) rather than an adjective. That may be its function, but its part of speech is still adjective. Just before posting this, to be sure ... handy "Pocket Dictionary of Current English"

I'm not sure about that. If you say "My coat", isn't "my" being used adjectivally? Strictly speaking, it is a determiner (or an article!) rather than an adjective. That may be its function, but its part of speech is

Students in Turkey also have problems with articles, but different ones to Greeks: there is no equivalent of the determiner 'the' in Turkish, so students will very often omit it, producing sentences such as: *Have you locked door?

In general, when speaking of the seasons, educated native speakers avoid the definite article. The only time you absolutely must use a determiner is when you mean a specific winter. the winter of '92, the Long Winter, this winter, next winter,