I'm so cross with myself. I can't even cite material correctly. Join the club! Have you finally got it right? Here is the sentence! It was on his way back past them, carrying a large burger, that he heard what they were saying. He =

a professional background this phrase is NP "a" is indefinite article function as determiner "professional" is an adjective. "background" is the head noun of the NP. Is this right?

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat

Thank you. If I take out the possessive part of the name "***'s" and have the generic word/noun "restaurant" in small letter intact, then should I put the definite article "the" or indefinite article "a"

I realized that the definite articles and indefinite articles were the other subclasses or the determiners after I typed my question. Cheers, SoP. PS: As far as the beer is concerned, feel free to charge me as much as you want (as long as

hello! this can be confusing for beginners as to as and when to use "the" (definite) or "a/an" (indefinite) article correctly. in grammar rules, the definite article (the) is used in occasions like stating a unique object, e.g. The moon, The sun

Thank you. But I want to indicate the main structure of the sentence in question is from a textbook and it is pretty doubtful that they would make such haphazard mistake as overlooking to put determiners in front of the words "beard" and

Hello VC "Such", "so", "as", "too", "how" and "what" work as adverbs. But when they are used as a modifier of an attributive adjective (=an adjective that comes before a noun), they behave as a pre-determiner (=a determiner that comes before an

Hi Taka, Yes I've found the reference-- it's over in 'adjectives', and has to do with the rather anomalous order of adjectives with intensifiers 'how, too' etc. where the order of indefinite article and attibutive adjective is reversed. So,

Actually, Demi, mine is more 'bookish' (formal) than your version, which is more common in conversation and informal writing. 'There' and 'it' as preparatory subjects do just that: prepare the listener, attracting his/her attention to the rest of