thanks, but i was after something specific identifying the exact taste of it, i.e. it being tannic.

Just was wondering, in informal spoken English, suppose you are eating out with friends and your food tastes unpleasantly tannic, what would be a correct way to announce it to everyone? What would be a correct say to note it in a rather formal

Hi everyone, Just when I thought I cracked the articles with generic plural nouns, I stumbled on this NYTimes essay and I'm totally confused. Can anyone exlain why they made the choices I'm highlighting below in colour. Cheers ---- Please ;(

Hi, I was just wondering if something called a 'tag exclamation' can be used with the indefinite or zero article. For example, Johh, the utter fool, insisted on staying with them. Note, that 'the utter fool' above is not an appositive,

Milky wrote: " The " could easily be replaced by "a" there. Probably though, the writer wants to say "the scheme offered by the company". Sure, but why in the phrase above '... plenty of workers fail to enrol in pension schemes and

In most cases, though, soft paternalism means the government giving people a choice, but skewing the choice towards the one their better selves would like to make. For instance, in many countries plenty of workers fail to enrol in pension schemes

Can anyone be so kind to explain to the stupid me why do we use the definite article with those rather abstract concepts? I dont think A of B rule should apply here in which the concepts of strenghth and sharpness are quantified somehow by

You are great

well, actually, i meant this modification: Mr. Springsteen, 47, known to rock devotees from New Jersey to Jakarta as the Boss, was accepting the 1997 Polar Music Prize, an accolade for musicians billed as an equivalent to a Nobel Prize,

CalifJim wrote: I don't know if there's a general rule, but in this specific case the money supply refers to the money supply of some particular country or to the international money supply. The writer assumes that the context gives enough