Is this student a native speaker of English? How old is he/she? How long has he/she been learning English?

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

except add, ebb, inn These are one-syllable content words that begin with a vowel. I think that, psychologically perhaps, we like content words (nouns, verbs, etc., rather than determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions) to have at least three

Can the above definition also be extended to countable plural nouns? No. Countable plural nouns do not require a determiner. Example: Bills keep piling up on my desk. I must pay them some day! How many kinds of determiners are there in English?

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

Much appreciated. I looked everywhere in my English Made Simple book and on the Internet about this - no luck. The problem being for me is that 'both' is classed as a determiner (and English Made Simple as absolutely nothing written

Welcome to English Forums! I agree with Avangi. This sounds like journalistic style, in which the would be dropped. Besides that, it is disconcerting to the reader to find the determiner the after an adjective ( former ). Use Yesterday, former

. Most English nouns have no gender (and how would we reveal it if they did, since we have no affixes or determiners that vary with gender?) The exceptions are the personal pronouns ( he, she , etc) and a number of nouns such as bull (a male cow),

Hi Anon So I think this "NO" is rather a kind of negative article (or determiner) that is equivalent to the German "KEIN". Am I right? Yes, it is very much like the German word "kein". However, German uses

The Cambridge Dictionary refers to "his" as a "determiner" and as "a pronoun". The Oxford Dictionary uses the term "possessive determiner". And in the 1913 edition of Webster's, "his" was