Thanks, Philip! But can you clarify me 'Come at too high a price'? Is it an idiom? Because when I watched the episode I heard it as 'come at too high price'. You know, without the indefinite article 'a'. And I thought of it

If a definition of the word "float" starts off like "a piece of wood or other light material that stays ...," do you think the article "a" modifies the word "material"? No. It can't. other forces an

Hi all! I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little

As stated, ' come into view ' is the expected idiom. However, it seems to me that #2 is odd primarily because of the indefinite article; ' the ocean came into our view ' would work much better.

Here's what I would say: We are going to stay in/at a nice hotel, just like famous actors. I wouldn't use the same as here at all. I might say: We stayed at the same hotel as famous actors. You have an indefinite article in the main clause,

Hi Muttley Unfortunately there are a myriad cases involving proper nouns with adjectival attributes and the indefinite article. You'll just have to learn them piecemeal. As you said in your first post, a/an is often used with a person's name: We

Great song by Nancy Sinatra! Still makes me somewhat confusin... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Included only for reference (no need to read the whole song)

Hi, Cambridge Dic says "means" is plural, like scissors or pants means (METHOD) plural noun What is the matter with the leading indefinite article then, as in "a means of"? Is it an idiom? But if we can single out one particular "means" of all

I agree with paco2004 that the plural fools is needed to agree with supporters . I also agree that the indefinite article a is needed in Don't make a fool of me . ( To make a fool of is an idiom which means to cause someone or oneself to look

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one.