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

May I try? (l) a siimple sentence. (2) it has a compound predicate. (3) the two predicates are connected by the coordinating conjunction "and"(4) predicate No. 1 = bought a box of colors. "box" is modified by "a" (an

A noun is a word that refers to something in the real world -- a person, place, or thing. Often preceded by a determiner such as a, an, the, this, that, my, ... Give it a try, and we'll tell you how you did. CJ

#2 When you are writing a list, or a parallel construction, as long as every item in the list takes on the same determiner, in this case "the", there is no need to repeat the determiner again. The only reason you would repeat the