Do native speakers strictly distinguish 1. from 2.? No. Not at all. For example, you might be saying that someone is left-handed by saying "He tosses a ball with his left hand". There's nothing about the determiner the (as opposed to

No; you cannot do that in English syntax. The gerund can only be preceded by a determiner.

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

much absolutely cannot be used there. loud and great are not really idiomatic there, though with the addition of of , the use of loud is slightly less objectionable. The positioning of adjectives in front of gerund clauses is not often successful

Hi. Is it correct to put adjectives like "loud" or "great" or what looks to be a determiner (not sure, though) like "much" in front of a gerund clause? eg, His much/loud/great playing the violin in the early

Hi, I have some questions regarding determiners. Should there be 'the' or zero article for these nouns? Can you please explain why 'the' is or is not required before these nouns as marked below? 1.Although there is such a thing as

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

Dear friend, Basically, any sentence consists of two parts. They are complete subject and complete predicate. Complete subject is the part of the sentence which names what is talked about, in your case, it is trains. The part which tells what is

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

it has many kind of food i know that the error here is a disagreement between determiner and noun especially with regard to number... but i want to know why does a student do this error? and what could be the solution for such a problem? i need