In Nouns^x, Literature^x

In older literature, the pronoun "one" or the indefinite article was used before a person's name when the character was first introduced to the reader. The setting usually was a conversation between two people talking about the third character. It's an old British literary...

It's not wrong. Normally in English sentences are ordered " Subject (S), Verb (V), Indirect Object (IO), Direct Object (DO) " but can run OSV, and, where pronouns are used in substitution of either the subject or object (e.g. your sentence) there are no word order constraints so...

I don't know either. I tend to think of the terms in connection with art. Of course "minimal" as an adjective predates all of that and is still used in the pure sense, as does and is the noun, minimum. "Please keep your paragraphs to a minimum." I guess "minimum"...

Hi, 1) Where I think we need to carve out some territory of definition in practice is to say that proselytism is relating to people different from oneself by using means and methods with ulterior motives in order to convert. But what's happening in secular literature is that it is moving...

1) skilled vs skillful The word skilled is related to specialized training / education , while skillful is used to indicate proficiency. 2) what's the difference between a northern wind and a northerly wind? From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ,...

1) skilled vs skillful 2) what's the difference between a northern wind and a northerly wind? 3) blanket vs quilt 4) I'm looking for a verb that describe actions such as: Change from Celcius degree to Farenheit degree or from meters to foot... 5) I'm looking for a noun:...

 the sentence seems a bit too "literature-sque", but i think since wait can be a noun, personally i would use "sometimes waiting itself also seems to be a wait"    $0.02 from a non-native speaker 

Dear Marina, I am glad you care a lot for English plural forms of nouns. You are probably learning English as a Second Language. The noun police is followed by a plural verb because it is a very big group of people. For one Individual, we talk of a Policeman or a policewoman. For the word...

There are no rules, and I think that you are trying too much to cram rules in your head, instead of reading more in order to get the real feel for the language from the literature, but: 1 is more natural than 2, which is strange , but could be used in literary contexts. Placing adjectives...

Hi Teachers, I'm doing literature review for a paper and have a question. When I say, "In Paco (2007), (x or the?) simulated values showed similar patterns as (x or the?) observed values. The simulated values were averaged over (a or the?) study area.", do I have to use the...