Hii, I have a question related to this that nagged me for some time in the past and that I forgot ... until I saw this thread. I know that there's a special word order when we have as - how - so - too , the indefinite article, a noun and an

Hello, I have a quick question. Is the following sentence correct?: A lot of our profits came from several overseas business ventures. Profits is a countable noun because it can be used as a plural noun (Our profits are high.)

Trash day is the day the trash is collected. Where I live, it's Tuesday, so on Monday night, everyone brings their trash to the curb. For some reason, many large trash cans are green. Hi, GG Can I use the indefinite article left

If you're talking about a class called "Business English" then it would be appropriate to capitalise "Business". If you're using "business English" as a generic descriptive term then "business"

The indefinite article is often brought on by an adjective : I had lunch. / I had an early lunch. Birds were flying in the sky. / Birds were flying in a blue sky. A is usually used with knowledge for the same reason, especially when the

Hi, please look at this sentence and tell me why it would be wrong to put the indefinite article 'a' to express one's incredulous feeling of encountering what I consider to be an instance of hypocrisy or blasphemy -- although on second

Hi, 1. I think the folloiwng sentence could be seen as a form of entreatment. Can the underlined part be different? May the Holy Spirit be pleased to open your ears,as He has mine . This sounds fine as written. Could the underlined part be: as

People like to pretend they're better educated than they really are, for various reasons which are not all contemptible. Unfortunately they do, but does "ay" really make them sound educated? Not to my ears. Am I normal? Svatopluk

I can't find anything specific about this in reference books, perhaps because the obvious solution is to redraft. To answer your question as it stands: in principle, I'd say this is better written as "a (strange) idiom" because

Once upon a 2/26/04 12:14 AM, in the land of (Email Removed), the good witch "Al Treacher" from (Email Removed) told the whole world all about how: Mentally wrestling with the correct usage of 'an' or 'a' before a word