By Indefinite articles, Literature

Hi BelieverDon't look for logic with regard to articles in English. Adjectival attributes very often bring on an indefinite article:A new culture was born.A relative clause may do the same:We need a culture that is totally different from what we have now.When an adjectival attribute refers to a...

the one in Literature and the another in Politics You don't want the "the" in either sentence; "one" and "another" are just there to explain "two". Moreover "the another" is not correct, you have both "the" (definite article) and "an" (indefinite article".

Hello MrP Thank you for your compliment. But I need some literature material to prove my supposition. By the way, don't you think English is extraordinary among European languages in that they put an indefinite article even to predicate nouns? (English) He is a student. (German) Er ist...

Thanks, Eagle, Paco, and MisterM for all your painstaking posts! Much to chew on. 1. It's odd that both your and K's dictionaries give this structure, which I seldom if ever hear. Maybe it's more common elsewhere. Sorry, all: I should have been clearer. I meant the ‘Child as he was…’...

AT JOHN 1:1 the King James Version reads: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Trinitarians claim that this means that "the Word" (Greek, ho lo'gos) who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God himself. Someone who is "with" another person...