Greetings, Tina, Mister Micawber's answers are completely relevant, but let me make some additional remarks: 1. A time of prosperity and peace - is a noun phrase you analysed absolutely correctly. In general, noun phrases may have the

Greetings, Icadia, Direct speech: It's against the law in our state for her to drive until she has been seizure-free for six months. Indirect speech: 1. The provisions of the legislation have probably not changed by the time of reporting

I think the original post was referring to possessives in general, not just 'him'. Trad grams called my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their possessive adjectives . However, in many modern grammars they came to be called

The number of of takes plural as usual When we are talking about amounts and quantities we usualyy use singular determiners, verbs and pronouns even if the noun is plural. Where is the five pounds I lent you? Twenty miles is a long way to walk.

Oh, am I stuck in this necessary/unnecessary grammatical terminology? I was driving my old green car.    I hope "my" isn't a pre-determiner.  Hi, Avangi What part of speech is 'my' here? My odd-enough analysis is/was:

What part of speech is 'second'? My terminology is: 'second' is an adjective or a pre-determiner and largest is also a determiner. The thing is, I think, determing whether it is an adverb/adjective could lead to something

The second largest economy. What part of speech is 'second'? My terminology is: 'second' is an adjective or a pre-determiner and largest is also a determiner. Thanks.

Hi, I saw your post after I had replied to Nona's. Jackson: Please excuse me; I have taken some liberties in interpreting what you have written. No problems. Q1: Who told you that there is no freedom of speech

Am I seriously wrong if I tell her that SINGULAR REGULAR NOUNS (I'm not talking about proper nouns, plural nouns, or pronouns) DO NOT START SENTENCES, but follow an article or a word like "some," "one," "that,"

Hi, Mister Micawber, when is the omittion of the article grammatically acceptable? How come the sentence examples with no articles above yours are acceptable? Are there a set of rules for this? Or is this part of speech, the determiner, never