By Indefinite articles, Paragraphs

«A» anyway: «This certain cell contains a cat and a few mice.» (© Nona) What about this one: «Every (or this) paragraph contains the first and the last sentences.»

Thank you Nona and Jim. The thrust?? of my inquiry lies with the article usage with such terms as "beginning" and "ending." Whenever I see a word preceded with such a term, instinctively I try to put the article "the" unless my close scrutiny shows it otherwise. I think my confusion is being...

When introducing the contents of something, the parts of something, or listing the components of something for the first time, we use the indefinite. That's because we are not referring back to each particular element of the list as a particular, unique object in the universe. We are only...

Could it help a little to read it this way? This essay, just like many other short literary compositions, contains a beginning paragraph, a middle paragraph and an ending paragraph.

This is all very well, but begining paragraphs there are many. The begining paragraph of each law in the civil code.

Look at the sentence below please and tell me why the writer of this sentence made what looks to be a choice to modify the nouns with an indefinite article. This essay contain a beginning paragraph, a middle paragraph and an ending paragraph. Would it be wrong to modify them all with a definite...

Hi Chintu, welcome to the Forums, First of all, here is the wrong place for your post . Try to repost it to the writing section where it can get more attention from people who are interested in correcting others' writings. But here are a few hints: try to write your article using the Microsoft...

It is a little difficult to correct without seeing the context of the whole paragraph. I see 2 points. 1/ Your text ....'and replaced by the new GPS based technology such as a RTK'....etc. The text contains the definite article 'the new GPS..' then it reads... 'such as a (indefinite article)...