Thanks. I realised that the idea of "completeness" is not correct in explaining "the". I copied the original text. The answer to gap(1) provided by the book is zero article. Therefore "deliveries" can not be interpreted as "deliveries"

Thanks. I made a typo mistake in my first post. I meant"with difference in meaning" I am still confused. I think only when"deliveries " is preceded by "the" , does"deliveries" mean every delivery without exception. If "a" is the correct

The factory was opened in 1996 and is one of the most advanced in the world. At the plant, independent component suppliers also have production facilities, manned by their own staff, producing doors, seatbelts etc. All the other suppliers are

Here is a paragraph of Hannibal's speech: Here, soldiers, where you have first met the enemy, you must conquer or die; and the same fortune which has imposed the necessity of fighting holds out to you, if victorious, rewards than which men are

Can ceremonial guns be called canons? The guns that launch salvos? Thanks.

...the hero who fell in the fighting ..... I wonder if fighting can be changed to "fight"? If both are correct? How to tell the difference? I am not sure when to use a noun, when to use a gerund. When both the noun and the gerund are available,

Thanks. Are you saying that there is difference in meaning and readers will distinguish them?

Are "launch a war" and "wage a war" of the same meaning, and therefore interchangeable? It seems to me "wage" is used less frequently than it used to be in the phrases such as "wage a war". Is it a correct observation? Thanks.

Thanks. When we say that this chair belongs to the boss. This is boss's chair. Is "boss's" the correct form? I learned that if a word ends in an S, there is no S following the apostrophe in the word's possessive case. But I often see cases like

Thanks. I didn't see the difference between the two words. Could you explain more? Did you mean "motive" is used when the action has completed, and what caused the action is studied?