In Nouns^x, Indefinite articles^x, Adverbs^x

First, let me call your attention to CB's correction. "Very" is an adverb, not an adjective, and it probably always was. "Most" is an adjective when it modifies a noun ( Most people can swim .), but in the two quite different usages we've been talking about here,...

You should delete the indefinite article in the second and third sentences. - "pharmacologically active" = adverb + adjective (i.e. there is no noun) - "inert" = adjective (i.e. there is no noun)

Hi, Consider this sentence. He has a very good knowledge. What is the function of the aritcle 'a' in the sentence? ( I know that the articles can function as adjectives but never as adverbs..Well, the case here is different, isn't it?..Can an indefinite article modify an uncountable noun? )...

Hi! Consider this sentence. He has a very good knowledge. What is the function of the aricle 'a' in the sentence? ( I know that the articles can function as adjectives but never as adverbs..Well, the case here is different, isn't it?..Can an indefinite article modify an uncountable noun? ) I am...

Right or wrong? “For a moment 1 , I even thought 2 that this was some sort of test 3 and that this woman was someone from the head office 4 , testing my loyalty 5 .” 1: Prepositional phrase used adverbially. 2: Main clause 3: Dependant clause 4: Dependant clause 5:...

Thanks, Marius. I will keep this rule in mind. What I am puzzled by, however, is the fact that either of the examples you gave me doesn't refer exactly to the sentence I gave. In your first example, we deal with proper names, no articles there, and in the second one, with one noun in plural and...

Hello VC "Such", "so", "as", "too", "how" and "what" work as adverbs. But when they are used as a modifier of an attributive adjective (=an adjective that comes before a noun), they behave as a pre-determiner (=a determiner that comes before an indefinite article). Those pre-determiners are...

Hello everyone, I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome. A/ Here is MY analysis: 1) She is so pretty a girl. a) parts of speech: she = nominative personal pronoun is = fintie verb so = adverb of...

Hi CJ, First, I don't think english has an absolute or relative superlative, it just has a superlative which comes with the definite article often (or even always) but NEVER with the indefinite article. Now if you were right with this: #1) The ... probe is a most useful tool. - absolute...

Hi Taka, Yes I've found the reference-- it's over in 'adjectives', and has to do with the rather anomalous order of adjectives with intensifiers 'how, too' etc. where the order of indefinite article and attibutive adjective is reversed. So, just as we cannot have ' X how lovely flowers these...