In Nouns^x, Articles^x, Possessives^x

. It is possible if 'Telecom' is the name of the company -- ' I started working at Telecom Company , Ltd -- but more likely the article is just unstressed and difficult to perceive. A or an is used before all singular countable nouns except those preceded by demonstrative adjectives...

The problem with doing that in this specific example is that the remaining "Chinese Take-Out restaurant" sounds completely generic to a native speaker. Let's name the restaurant with a more interesting name that can more easily be thought of as unique: Beijing Cherry Blossom. Then...

Thank you. If I take out the possessive part of the name "***'s" and have the generic word/noun "restaurant" in small letter intact, then should I put the definite article "the" or indefinite article "a" in front of it? Where is the/a?? Chinese Take-Out...

If there is a chain of restaurants with the same name, you are looking for a Lee's Chinese Take-Out restaurant. If there is only one, you are looking for Lee's Chinese Take-Out restaurant. ___ That in mind, let's consider your questions. There used to be a ***'s Chinese Take-Out...

In (1) through (3) the noun remains singular. In (4), we omit both a noun and an article. It seems to be difficult to mentally supply both, and this has the effect of turning 'first and second' into a plural modifier. The phrase is then analogous to 'the two boys'. The...

Hmmm. I thought that a + singular countable noun was the same as zero article + plural countable noun. Why wouldn't the hobbits look around for other(s)' grimy hands and not their ones? In the original sentence, "hands" doesn't have a determiner either... Having...

Haha, you gave me a funny picture in my head. If you told Paul to wash a weary face, he would probably be looking around for someone else's weary face to wash because you can't tell him to wash his own face that way; a tells the listener that we are being generic. If you wanted him to...

"why was late reply" is not a sentence. It has no meaning. In English a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark (. ; : ? !) In addition, you seem to have omitted a definite or indefinite article or a possessive pronoun and mixed up the word order. ...

and so forth. They are not adjectives , because they can be substituted for and cannot co-occur with another determiner such as an article or a demonstrative. So the answer to your question: "So would you say this particular grammar point is widely accepted by native-speakers and/or...

Thanks Huevos for you enlightment. But could we, just for the sake of arguement, allow me to examine the merit of this grammar point: It says: There are 7 words that are "always" adjectives: articles "a", "an" and "the" and possessive pronouns...