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This quiz is given by the University of Cambridge as a free sample of Paper 1 (Reading), Part 2 (Gapped Sentences) of the ESOL Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE). This type of test assesses how well candidates understand the structure of the text and the development of the theme (so...

Hi, I have trouble knowign whether I should put articles for situations like below or not. 1. Classroom management styles can be characterized along two dimensions: type (why not 'the type'??) of control ... and degreee (the degree OK??) of involvement ... I feel the word 'degree'...

"church" meaning the building is countable and takes an article ("I live opposite a church"). "church" can be uncountable, with no article, in the sense I illustrated before. "state" is normally countable. "the state" and "the...

Thank you, again. Are these types of verbal nouns (as you called it) or instances of verbal nouns? What validates their placement of an indefinite article? I did a Google Book search for the what you seem to be callling "verbal nouns" -- watching, mixing, playing, shouting and...

Thank you, Avangi. In my previous post, I should have used third-person verb tenses, 'sounds' and 'gives' -- proper subject-verb agreement wasn't made due to my carelessness. Going back to your request for examples of cases where I would feel something in quotes could...

Hi, It has been known to me that a gerund can function as a noun and should or likely to be treated more as an uncountable noun than a countable noun. Mixing of sugar and flour makes this dough ... If you want to be specific, I think you could write: The mixing of sugar and flour...

That lesson cost me almost a hundred dollars They first settled here almost 75 years ago or Almost 1000

Lin1978 wrote: Dear Masters, The grammar, "the verb transferred to passive terms", preplexes me all the time. I have read an article,"women with money encounter the fragile male ego on date", in New York Times. There is a sentence in this article, "Women are encountering forms of the hostility...

Hi, very interesting... I wouldn't say you always have to add the article. But I'm not sure, so it would be interesting to know if in a sentence like... Candidates must have (a) good knowledge of Physics the article can be left out. If so, then you can say that the article can be added when...

Hi, I think a pronoun is a word that is used to refer to something or someone like 'he' or 'someone'. Can that kinds of grammatical element (if I can call it this) accommmodate some typical articles 'a', and 'the'? Can you give me some examples?