In Prepositions^x, Indefinite articles^x

Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...

Hi LcchangIf there is only one airport in your city, you could say I work at the airport. If you want to emphasize that you are always indoors when you work there, you could say I work in the airport. You could use the indefinite article (a/an) if there are several airports.If you mention a...

Right or wrong?“For a moment1, I even thought2 that this was some sort of test3 and that this woman was someone from the head office4, testing my loyalty5.” 1: Prepositional phrase used adverbially. 2: Main clause 3: Dependant clause 4: Dependant clause 5: Participial...

Hi,could you please answer the questions below? They're all related to giving directions.1. Someone is asking for directions to the bank. What can you say instead of the highlighted part below to sound most natural?Take the first right. Take the first right. The bank is the first building on...

Hi, For the word 'discussion', #1 sounds very wrong. #2 sounds fine, although there are alternatives to the preposition 'on'. Best wishes, Clive

1) I haven't *a* or *the* slightest idea? (yes I know it's superlative, but in some cases we may use an indefinite article with superlative degree) 2) *a" nice weather or without any article? (yes I know it's uncountable, but there is a descriptive attribute "nice") 3) "It's *in* a five minutes'...

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...

Hello, Nobody replied to my previous post, but I hope someone will for this one 1) The representative told the press a lie out of fear of retribution. Parts of speech: The = definite article Representative = noun Told = ditransitive verb Press = noun A = indefinite article Lie = noun Out...

Hi. Formally, it's an indefinite article (a man = any man). Compare to "the", which is a definite article: the man on the corner (no other man). Now, it can be considered a preposition only in informal speech when replacing "of": sorta sad (sort of sad) or a kinda mess (a kind of mess). (By...