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Thanks, M.M. for your help. I was just consulting my dictionary for it when u replied. But to my great surprise Her has not been mentioned in my dictionary as an adjective, but as a pronoun and determiner. In the later case its function was the same as in adjective. Could you pleas tell me the...

1. When is it right to put the before the determiner the before the word "future" and when not? The first sentence is Nona's: Phew, this is a long one Believer, it might be better if you split these things up into several posts in future. In the future, you can ask him help. Somewhere in...

1. In the case of putting the determiner "the" in front of nouns, I think the criteria we would apply are 1) the case of specificity and 2) the case of a prior precedent. OK. In applying the stated criteria, can we use a "either one" approach or a "either or both" approach? In other words, can...

Hi, Can anyone tell me what is the difference between an article and a determiner? Some solid examples to help me to distinguish the two will be appreciated.

[quite" is used as a modifier for verbs<<Can fairly,pretty,rather used as this?Quite" is can be used as a pre-determiner <<Can fairly,pretty,rather used as this? thank^^

Anonymous wrote:We can use quite in the following : 1)quite+ adj/adv2)quite+ article(a/an)+ adj + countable noun If the noun is uncountable, can I use quite+ adj + noun?3)quite + article(a/an) + noun4)quite +verbCan pretty, rather or fairly use in the way as quite do?Hello Anon Adjective...

Hello CliveI am interested in Shirley's question. At first I thought that the use of "more of" in Shirley's sentence might come from a syntactic restriction that two determiners ("more" and "their" in the Shirley's sentence) cannot be put before a noun. And I thought there might be no semantic...

Hi Mara, My comments and corrections are in blue. This is an assignement I corrected and I'd appreciate it if some of you could have a look at it and tell me what you think of my corrections. It concerns a Memo sent to the CEO of a company. My comments and corrections will be in red, as well...

This is an assignement I corrected and I'd appreciate it if some of you could have a look at it and tell me what you think of my corrections. It concerns a Memo sent to the CEO of a company. My comments and corrections will be in red, as well as some questions I posed: Student's...

Hello Roro Yeah, you are right. The quantifiers in Japanese behave in very peculiar ways. "Kare-wa sanko-no ringo-wo tabe-ta" is "He ate three apples". "Kare-wa ringo-wo sanko tabe-ta". How would you translate it into English? To me the isolated "sanko" sounds like an adverbial noun. So my try...