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Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

In grammar, "an array" or "the array" are singular. "The arrays" is plural. Array is a countable noun. That is why they use the article "an" or pronoun "one" before "array", and the article "the" before "arrays". ...

Hi, Please look at this and tell me if the indefinite article 'a' goes with the third and fourth underlined parts. Is there possible confusion? If yes, how would you resolve it in term of grammar and the sentence structure? Would you say ther article 'a' does not go with any...

Nevermind on this one. I figured it out. Sheesh. I don't know how I missed it. The "has" was referring to "whenever possible."

Thanks for your swift reply, GG. You are the first. First of all, let me ask you something. Is this forum suitable for questions like these? If not please tell me now. Yet these are questions that some advanced ESL students come up with, as you would know. Assuming it is all right ... Yes, I...

See, this the weird thing. While that last sentence doesn't sound right, this one does: Are these the pens you're looking for? Thanks, but no, those aren't the ones I'm looking for.

These are often called "uncountable nouns" (or "mass nouns"). For example, you can count apples -- one apple, two apples, three apples -- but you can't count "informations". There are lots and lots of them in English. Some examples are at...

My tall Off-white in color, right wall gracefully hold the blue , wide window . Today, In these pleasent evening colors streaming in through this open window, I feel much relaxed --light as fur, the dark clouds of stress and fatigue seemingly fading away. There are a number of problems here....

(Again, I should emphasise that these are just my personal views. Some of the questions have no "right" and "wrong" answers, and other people may have different opinions.) 1. Sitting at my writing desk placed right-hand side of open window, and working on my English...

. There are a number of 'plural only' nouns: cattle, oats, scissors, police . They should occupy a small section of your grammar book.