The A level Language textbook we use categorises 'my' 'your' 'his' 'her' 'our' and 'their' as possessive pronouns. I think they cannot be pronouns since they do not replace nouns. I have seen them

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

Hi, Schools getting more points in the tables for "hard" subjects, including maths, physics and languages, but fewer points for so-called "soft" subjects such as media studies. I usually expect to see an article or a determiner

Yes, there should be an article or other determiner before 'Danish'. Even the most professional publishers sometimes fail at proofreading.

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