By Determiners, Resume

E.g.:Envoys to deadlocked North Korean nuclear talks will take a recess, the Chinese government announced Sunday, without giving a date for negotiations to resume. I might not take it as specifically American: the absence of a determiner before 'envoys' and 'deadlocked' already marks the...

'There is a lot more to be done. (noun)' -- pronoun, actually: 'a lot more ' 'I need a lot more books. (adjective)' -- yes, or determiner. 'This one is a lot more expensive (adverb)' -- yes, modifying the adjective. I suppose that 'more... than' can be extrapolated from all such cases, though I...

The rule seldom changes, but you have it backward: 'determiner before adjective': A funny teacher This angry moderator My happy wife The order changes occasionally, as in some exclamations ('how funny a teacher he is!'), but the rule holds better than most English rules of grammar and...

Hi Jeff, I almost missed this one, even with the title. Moderators (at least this one) often have time only to look down the 'Replies' column to see which new posts are unanswered-- but you 'answered' yourself twice! Now let's see-- We can't really compare 'all (of)' with 'each (of)'...