either "learners of the English language," or "English language learners." Why is article the essential here? There is only one English language. e.g. I'm learning Chinese language these days. Is there any need to specify

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

1. The use of the indefinite article implies that more than one shop are involved. On second thought, I'm trying to envisage a conversation with "it's a little shop of my own"... Perhaps it could be used even if you have only

Hi, Please look at this and tell me if the indefinite article 'a' goes with the third and fourth underlined parts. Is there possible confusion? If yes, how would you resolve it in term of grammar and the sentence structure? Would you say

Could you please explain to me why you didn´t correct the indefinite article before the word kids (second paragraph, first line)? You are right the 'a' before 'kids' should not be there. I missed out. Thank you. The original

Hello Anon, "Sherrie" is a proper noun; "employee" is an ordinary noun; "is" is a verb; "a" is an indefinite article. Best wishes, MrP

I am not sure if the following answers your question but I'll say it anyway. Some grammarians don't distinguish between verbal nouns (= complete nouns formed from verbs with the ing ending) and gerunds (= words that are neither verbs nor

Thank you Why one has an article and one doesn't? The most erroneous concepts These/They are most/very erroneous concepts. Is the word 'most' here is not a superlative? When is it an adjective and when is it a superlative? He is the

Thank you, Avangi. In my previous post, I should have used third-person verb tenses, 'sounds' and 'gives' -- proper subject-verb agreement wasn't made due to my carelessness. Going back to your request for examples of

Please correct the following sentences: Patient: Doc, is this a placebo? Doc: No, it's a pharmacologically active. Patient: I thought it was an inert. You should delete the indefinite article in the second and third sentences. -