By Determiners, Expressions

There is no consensus on how to handle numerals. They are like determiners and like nouns. Some grammarians just use "numeral" as another part of speech, like "noun" or "verb".I offer this analysis, but there are surely others.fifty is a noun acting as a...

Good question. It points out some of the awkwardness, not to say fallacies, associated with some of our usual explanations of the grammatical machinery of English! It is true that it is difficult to find a noun phrase which can easily and smoothly replace meeting you in the example...

They are both somewhat unusual and somewhat contradictory. there (as an adverb of place) is associated with things that are at some distance from the speaker (in contrast to here). this and these are associated with things that are near the speaker (in contrast to that and those). There are...

Your answer to the second question is about 200 words too long. Cut it down and bring it back here afterwards. Watch your spelling as well, as you have several silly errors, such as beak for break and Whiteman for Whitman. You need to be able to proof read your own writing and not rely on us to...

"Please go to next class" is incorrect; it should be "Please go to the next class" or "Please go to your next class." "I will see you next period" is an expression that works just like "I will see you tomorrow" or "I will see you next week". We usually use "next something" phrases without a...

Hi, I know some typical expressions involving the phrase "next something" do not need to have determiners in front of them but some expressions in the "next something" pattern confuse me somewhat? Do you have some guidelines or a list that can help me? I will see you next period. (Is this OK?...

I think you may be misunderstanding what dictionaries tell us about words. The dictionaries say that 'love' is a noun. They also say that 'love' is a verb. How is that possible? Here's how. The dictionary is telling us that when 'love' is used as a noun, this is the meaning: (and the...

Hi, I know that "one" can be a determiner like in this context. Would you like to have dinner one night? How about here, is "one" being a determiner too? "One' here is an adjective. eg one class, not two or three or four The addition of "the" makes it sound as if there was only ever going to...

Riglos wrote:Hi people! First of all, let me give you some examples: Context: After a party, a woman is chatting with a friend about the party she went to the previous day: "I have met very many people at the party." Then, she goes on to tell her friend who is / was it that she met. Her...

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...