Search results for 'tag:Determiners tag:Nouns' matching tags 'Determiners' and 'Nouns'

Re: The next / Next

CalifJim — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:18:59 GMT

Oops! I oversimplified. My remarks pertained to the use of next and the next when referring to time. Trains are different!

Both of your examples require the next (train). train is a countable, singular, concrete noun, so it has to have a determiner. This takes precedence over any other considerations.

Time expressions are adverbial, so We're leaving next Monday is OK. Monday is noun-like, but it's used as an adverb. And besides, it's not a concrete noun anyway.

Re: Noun number and determiner

Clive — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:50:44 GMT

Hi,
. . . friends, I feel there is more to the explanation of it.
What are noun numbers tI'm no familiar with this expression. To me, it sounds like a way of talking about singular/plural.

and determiners? Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner_(class)

Let me assure you that if you say things like 'He's pulling my legs / one of my legs/ a leg', it will sound very odd and quite amusing to nstive speakers.

Best wishes again, Clive

Re: Noun number and determiner

kve — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:25:42 GMT

Hey Everybody:

I appreciate your quick responses. Thanks to all of you.

However friends, I feel there is more to the explanation of it.
What are noun numbers and determiners?

Please comment.

Good Day!

Regards,
KVE

Re: Noun number and determiner

Goodman — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:20:43 GMT

Hi KVE,
Welcome!
<<<<Variations in noun number and determiners:
. - If he is a pianist or a singer, yes, you can say. "he performed [for ] many charities [last year]". Note the brackets.
. "Perform" is a verb with broad meaning. He performed poorly on the project= He didn't show his best ability on the project.But your sentence also carries a hint that he could be involved with charity work.

She loves to pull your legs.- This is ok. This means she loves to do practical jokes on you, or kid around with you.

Noun number and determiner

kve — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:20:58 GMT

Hello Everybody:

I am delighted to have joined this forum.

I look forward to an enormous learning experience.

As of now, I have the following query:

Variations in noun number and determiners: He performed many charities. She loves to pull your legs.

What does the above mean and what is wrong with those two sentences.

Your replies are most awaited.

Thanks.

Regards,
KVE

Re: Grammar Suggestion

Mr Wordy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:24:50 GMT

1. Why itâs not good using "Gently landing" I mean gently is adverb of verb landing?

There is no problem with "gently landing" itself. As you rightly say, "gently" is an adverb qualifying "landing". The issue is whether, in the sentence you wrote, the verb "landing" fits the noun "glow". It's not wrong, but to me it sounded slightly odd.

2. Glow is singular, so we use "it's" to balance subject-verb agreement, is it correct?

Almost. It should be "its", not "it's". (It's actually noun-determiner agreement rather than subject-verb agreement.)

Today, in these pleasant evening rays, different colors stepping [ or streaming would be good?] inn through my brown [adding different adjective] window, [situated word is ok?] over the tall blue, right-hand side wall, [same] I feel much relaxed -- light as fur, the dark cloud of stress and fatigue seemingly fading away.

"tall blue, right-hand side wall" is, to me, slightly too much. "right-hand side wall" isn't really grammatical, and again I question whether it helps the sentence to mention that it's "right-hand". If you really do want to include this kind of detail then I wonder if you would do better with two sentences -- perhaps one sentence to explain the layout of the room, window and wall, and another to describe the sun's rays and the feelings that they evoked.

As I mentioned before, "stepping" is the wrong word; "streaming" is fine. "Inn" should be "in". I don't understand what you mean by "situated word is ok?".

And I would like to ask, what if the last line [the dark cloud of stress and fatigue seemingly fading away]
I separate it from rest of the sentence. Would it be fine in case of coherence where each sentence should agree with previous?

I think I answered that one before. I said: "But if you were starting a new sentence then 'seem to be' would be correct: I feel much relaxed -- light as fur. The dark clouds of stress and fatigue seem to be fading away."

Re: Please explain

Clive — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:04:05 GMT

Hi,

Financial minister had held the meeting with the senior officials.

Is âhad heldâ is correct, I think only held should be there

'Had held' is a correct tense. You can use any tense (past / present / future / continuous / etc.) in a sentence like this, but whether it will be appropriate depends on your meaning and on the context in which this sentence is placed.

You need an article or some other determiner with 'financial minister', eg 'The . . .'

'The . . . officials' and 'the . . . meeting' suggests these nouns have been referenced already, earlier in the context.

Best wishes, Clive

A Complete list of closed english words and Synonyms?

Undernet — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:56:53 GMT

Hi, Does anybody know of any list or database that contains the entire list of closed english words? I am a computer programer and require this information as part of a program I am writing. I am also looking for the entire list of conjunctions, determiners, pronouns and adpositions (these are all closed words too). And finally I am also looking for a Synonym database for finding words(open and closed) with the same kind of meaning. I've searched around but to no avail. There are plenty of sites giving common closed words but I havent found a place that offers the entire list. The reason I need the entire list is because my program will not function correctly if a user types in a closed word that the program does not know about. Thanks in Advance.

Re: Ending a grammar argument

MrPedantic — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:51:42 GMT

Hello Branwen319, welcome to English Forums! (Are there really 318 other Branwens here?)

No comma is needed; "your" is a possessive pronoun, and "no" is an indefinite determiner (i.e. they're not adjectives).

Two or more qualitative adjectives may be separated by a comma, e.g. "a long, thin piece of wood"; but if we use "my" instead of "a", it does not need to be followed by a comma, any more than "a" does (thus "my long, thin piece of wood", if for some reason we need to specify such a thing).

The trick is to treat the comma as a pause. Does your boyfriend pause after "your", when he says "your normal routine"? I doubt it. Better to save all those commas and cut down on toner.

Good luck!

MrP

Re: in quotation marks

Clive — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:09:54 GMT

Hi,

Should I treat what is in a pair of quotation marks just like an adjective without any difference in terms of whether to place an article or not? Yes.

I feel like you have to have an article, 'a' or 'the' or 'an', before a quoted content acting as an adjective for a singular noun. With a singular countable noun, yes, you need some kind of determiner.

... reveals an aspect of 'pali-pali' Korean culture. This is fine.

-- The 'culture' is an uncountable, I think. Yes.

Best wishes, Clive