What you call your "attempt" is almost perfect, Eddie. You're good at grammar! One minor correction I'd made would be the category acting as subject: it is a clause, not a phrase. It has a verb (even if not a finite form) and it

1. As far as I know, all 3 articles are "always" followed by a noun and/or adjective+noun. Why are they labeled as "adjectives" when coming before a noun or adjective+noun? Why not just call them adjectives to begin with? and

That's a question. Before any native speakers' responses, I'd like to list out what I've checked out in some dictionaries: American heritage: adj & interj Cambridge Advanced Learner's: determiner & exclamation (old exclamation)

Hi, Please tell me what the marked/underlined "a" is modifying? School I thought that when you have something in the possessive form, the determiner is not needed. The genitive is used here to describe a 'characteristic' of the school.

This is the most attractive piece (not pieces) of clothing I have seen so far. It means nothing is more attractive than ... . This is a most attractive piece (not pieces) of clothing. here most means very Among the most significant

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.

Hello Teo and Pieanne "There's a girls' high school near here". This "girls'" is a "descriptive genitive" according to the terms used by some grammarians. Unlike the possessive s-genitive, the descriptive genitive behaves like an adjective rather

In English, it is a rule to reckon a Saxon genitive as a kind of possessive determiner like "his". So your phrases should be "(a poor invalid)'s diet" and "(the poor invalid)'s diet" because you cannot say "a poor his diet" and "the poor his

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a

Something odd about this: I can't think of any grammar ... determiners. If you had been discussing 'mine, yours, his, hers...' American Heritage Book of Usage , e.g.: : In Standard English, most possessive pronouns have different forms