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Thanks, M.M. for your help. I was just consulting my dictionary for it when u replied. But to my great surprise Her has not been mentioned in my dictionary as an adjective, but as a pronoun and determiner. In the later case its function was the same as in adjective. Could you pleas tell me the...

1. In the case of putting the determiner "the" in front of nouns, I think the criteria we would apply are 1) the case of specificity and 2) the case of a prior precedent. OK. In applying the stated criteria, can we use a "either one" approach or a "either or both" approach? In other words, can...

Anonymous wrote: We can use quite in the following : 1)quite+ adj/adv 2)quite+ article(a/an)+ adj + countable noun If the noun is uncountable, can I use quite+ adj + noun? 3)quite + article(a/an) + noun 4)quite +verb Can pretty, rather or fairly use in the way as quite do? Hello Anon Adjective...

Hello Clive I am interested in Shirley's question. At first I thought that the use of "more of" in Shirley's sentence might come from a syntactic restriction that two determiners ("more" and "their" in the Shirley's sentence) cannot be put before a noun. And I thought there might be no semantic...

Hi Mara, My comments and corrections are in blue. This is an assignement I corrected and I'd appreciate it if some of you could have a look at it and tell me what you think of my corrections. It concerns a Memo sent to the CEO of a company. My comments and corrections will be in red, as...

This is an assignement I corrected and I'd appreciate it if some of you could have a look at it and tell me what you think of my corrections. It concerns a Memo sent to the CEO of a company. My comments and corrections will be in red, as well as some questions I posed: Student's homework: ...

Hello Roro Yeah, you are right. The quantifiers in Japanese behave in very peculiar ways. " Kare-wa sanko-no ringo-wo tabe-ta " is " He ate three apples ". " Kare-wa ringo-wo sanko tabe-ta ". How would you translate it into English? To me the isolated " sanko " sounds like an adverbial noun....

I have added a squib, '(In-)definiteness and Temporal Measure Phrases,' in which a problem is discussed dating back to 1969 when I discovered that Nouns are sensitive to the referential force of the determiner in making up an NP. That is, one may say . Hello Roro I'm not sure whether I got...

Hello paco, in connection with your previous thread about 'adverbial objectives' I've just read an interesting paragraph. I'm not sure whether it concerns your question, but let me cite it. But I mention to your post first ┈ only partly, though. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ...

Hello Guest Since this is for an exam, I don't feel I should give detailed replies. But you may wish to consider: 1. Why the following sentences are ungrammatical: a) Never watch I television. b) Which programmes watched you? Look up Inversion in your grammar book. a) Would...