Hi there, I was wondering about the following matter: Why do we use the indef. art. a -> /ə/ before words that start with a consonant sound? And why do we use the indef. art. an -> /ən/ before words that start with a vowel sound? The

The short answer to your question is no. The word "imbued" is not used in everyday language, and is probably inappropriate in the given context, even if intended metaphorically. It means "saturated", and your example would mean

He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. (Sir A. Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia) In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was

Hi Teachers, I'm doing literature review for a paper and have a question. When I say, "In Paco (2007), (x or the?) simulated values showed similar patterns as (x or the?) observed values. The simulated values were averaged over (a or

Hi Believer Don'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

The use of the zero article in English depends on the kind of noun this article refers to. Within your second sentence: "I like the teachers of my school", the noun "teacher" is a countable concrete noun and thus requires the definite article.

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"

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

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

Dave, First of all, and even when everyone is surely aware of this, I must insist that even when I believe my knowledge of the English grammar is good, I'm not a grammarian or a linguist. It would be completely absurd for me to try and analyse a