In Nouns^x, Indefinite articles^x, Clauses^x

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:...

Mr. M. Lately I think I am seeing more of what looks be uncountable nouns followed by what looks to be retrictive clauses and precede by the indefinite article "a." Is that right? How about this? IS THIS RIGHT? A beauty of the Princess of Bigman's land is exquisite. Can an...

Although grammar books say the indefinite article should not be used with un countable nouns, there are many instances in which it is. In your sentence it is the phrase from God and the relative clause that is by faith... that introduces the article. The writer refers to a special kind of...

I wonder if there is any tactics by means of which you would be returned to life, now being more susceptible to small bites , to unevenness/uneven heart beats of the heart. "Unevenness" is a noun, not an adjective, so it couldn't be used to describe anything. Saying "heart beats of the...

Dear paco, The indefinite article is optional in your example. Usually it is required as in He is a loser. - Er ist ein Versager. I would have to think it over more thoroughly, but for now I would say it is only optional for occupations, professions, cronic medical illnesses and to...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one. Children of poor social classes in Dickens' times...

Thanks, Eagle, Paco, and MisterM for all your painstaking posts! Much to chew on. 1. It's odd that both your and K's dictionaries give this structure, which I seldom if ever hear. Maybe it's more common elsewhere. Sorry, all: I should have been clearer. I meant the ‘Child as he was…’...

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...

AT JOHN 1:1 the King James Version reads: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Trinitarians claim that this means that "the Word" (Greek, ho lo'gos) who came to earth as Jesus Christ was Almighty God himself. Someone who is "with" another person...