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Not to mention that the instructions said "Put ALL NOUNS in these phrases into the plural form." I believe leader is a noun. CJ

This is a very scholarly work dealing with the complexities and analysis of Grammar, with a special section devoted to Gerunds, participles, and infinitive phrases. If you want to read the entire work, it is online. A link to the entire chapter follows. This section is on determining if an -ing...

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...

Hi, Can anyone explain when 'their' - possessive pronoun is used? Is it used to refer possession of something with respect to 'people' only or 'objects' like planets etc.. thanks

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...

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...

Whether or not people choose to accept it is irrelevant, it's a fact. Have a look at this: smooth coat chihuahua domesticated dog canis caninae canidae carnivora mammal chordata animal Now when you see a chihuahua ask the owner if it is a " chordata ". Most would say no,...

Hi, I need help with this grammar point. I was preparing myself for an English Grammar test, the material I'm studying to prepare for the test says that there are 7 words, namely 3 articles (a, an, the) and 4 possessive pronouns (my, our, your, their), are always "adjectives"....

Generally, what follows the "of" in a double possessive will be definite and human, not otherwise, so we would say "a friend of my uncle's" but not "a friend of the museum's ." What precedes the "of" is usually indefinite ( a friend, not the best...