Does the light brigade mean a troop of cavalry soldiers? You mean a light brigade can also be infantry? Yes, I see the article can be important here. My apologies. Your first question, with the definite article, should be taken as referring

Hello Vctory Ong, I enjoyed reading your essay, I think you're an imaginative writer who is skilled at making the place you are describing seem real. Here are some of the errors I noticed in your essay. We enjoys, they dances, jogs...

The indefinnite article and numbers are not used with non-countable nouns, such as advice. So, he has a good knowledge of English is wrong? CB

The indefinnite article and numbers are not used with non-countable nouns, such as advice.

So, when talking about modelling hydrodynamics, we would use "a hydrodynamic model"? Yes. our answer has lead me to another question: is it "...indefinite articles which should...", or "...indefinite articles that

Hi VT I would like to preface my comments about your sentences by reminding you that some sentences are possible to say, but only in a very limited number of contexts. Many of the sentences you post are grammatically acceptable, but may not sound

Hi. 1. I think I have asked a similar question as part of a thread but since I could not find it, I have decided to start a new thread. Let us try to adjectives like "vibrant" in front of the names of countries, cities and streets.

. The indefinite article certainly helps in the determination, though I doubt that it is much of a deciding point. In any case, your clause is most likely restrictive (defining) because the gentleman in this isolated sentence has no definition

I recently used the following question on a quiz: A gentleman ________ I had never seen before smiled at me. The students were to put the relative pronoun in the first blank and then write whether it was a defining or non-defining relative

So does it mean that it's possible to use both the and a/an before a relative clause? If I said: "...the man who brought such humiliation upon his office" instead of "...a man who brought...", would the meaning remain