By Determiners, Literature

People have found this text useful so I am repeating it here in this entirety with error fixed (there are several posts combined in it) Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass,...

Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass, abstract… However what is more important is to understand that the context is equally important. You can turn many words into abstract if...

Nona and Matthew Your replies are very helpful. The literature said that grammarians call this kind of clause's rightward movement as extraposition. When the subject determiner is 'a', we can move the restrictive relative clause but when it is 'the' we can't. I didn't still grasp the reason but...

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 language that is not even my own in depth when I...