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I can't understand why in this type of sentence an author doesn't use the article if we are talking about definite nouns ( head noun which modified by prepositional phrase). Portraits why without a definite article? here example The boy draw portraits of people why waiting for an aeroplane at the
Hello, my apologies for having overlooked this question of yours that you asked so long ago. First, I believe you mean "while" and not "why" in your sentence and also either "draws," present tense or "drew," the irregular past tense of "draw." Plus I suspect the last word was omitted, that is, I believe your whole sentence is something like "The boy drew portraits of people why waiting for an aeroplane at the airport."
As to your specific question, the reason we don’t have the definite article "the" before the noun portraits is (1) it’s the first mention of the noun and (2) in the case of (1), for plural countable nouns like "portraits" from "portrait" we don’t use any article at all (though we could use "some" here, but again, no article is needed). Compare, for example, "The boy drew a portrait" where we must use the indefinite article "a" since "portrait" is singular, not plural.
So it is true that the noun "portraits" in your sentence is post-modified by a prepositional phrase ("of people") which normally requires the preceding noun to be definite (i.e., "the portraits" instead of just "portraits"), but the larger context of the sentence is what overrules this principle here, namely again that this is presumably the first mention of these portraits the boy is or was drawing, so we signal that by having no article before portraits; "The boy drew the portraits of people…," by contrast, would imply that the portraits have already been introduced and mentioned in the discourse, i.e., the conversation or the writing.
As to your specific question, the reason we don’t have the definite article "the" before the noun portraits is (1) it’s the first mention of the noun and (2) in the case of (1), for plural countable nouns like "portraits" from "portrait" we don’t use any article at all (though we could use "some" here, but again, no article is needed). Compare, for example, "The boy drew a portrait" where we must use the indefinite article "a" since "portrait" is singular, not plural.
So it is true that the noun "portraits" in your sentence is post-modified by a prepositional phrase ("of people") which normally requires the preceding noun to be definite (i.e., "the portraits" instead of just "portraits"), but the larger context of the sentence is what overrules this principle here, namely again that this is presumably the first mention of these portraits the boy is or was drawing, so we signal that by having no article before portraits; "The boy drew the portraits of people…," by contrast, would imply that the portraits have already been introduced and mentioned in the discourse, i.e., the conversation or the writing.
Thanks for helping me a lot ???
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Sorry that i nerves you, but you are the one who can help me in this to tuesday, i have only to do this 1 english exam and i am positive in every subject) so please help meeee you are the teacher of the teachers
Vielen Dank, Rajana. I would be glad to try to help you, but I have some questions first. In your first message, you wrote that you need to "write my text," but then you refer to a "test" on Tuesday; also in, this message I'm replying to here, you mention "1 english exam." So will you need to write those two passages, i.e., about a partner and where you have lived, during the period of your exam/test on Tuesday or do you have to bring the two completed written passages with you *before* you do Tuesday's test/exam?
Also, in your message about the first question you say must "use this words in this text: (looks, likes, dislikes, hobbys, education, character, social status, job...)." O.K., what you have in the parentheses look more like topics than specific English words you must use; were you give a list of English vocabulary items that relate to these topics?
Similarly, for the second question you include the direction "How are the people, the food, the shops, transportation, culture, public, art, politics?" So once again I'm assuming these are the general aspects of the topic you must write about, and once more I'm curious if you've been given vocabulary to help you write about these things.
Please contact me at my tutoring site http://mccorduck.cc/chegg which is where I usually help students with writing. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, so I hope I'll be able to give you the help you need.
Also, in your message about the first question you say must "use this words in this text: (looks, likes, dislikes, hobbys, education, character, social status, job...)." O.K., what you have in the parentheses look more like topics than specific English words you must use; were you give a list of English vocabulary items that relate to these topics?
Similarly, for the second question you include the direction "How are the people, the food, the shops, transportation, culture, public, art, politics?" So once again I'm assuming these are the general aspects of the topic you must write about, and once more I'm curious if you've been given vocabulary to help you write about these things.
Please contact me at my tutoring site http://mccorduck.cc/chegg which is where I usually help students with writing. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, so I hope I'll be able to give you the help you need.
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Hi, are you asking me what kind of English word or phrase would be appropriate to use in the blank?
Really missed you advice ?????? The next exam is History of English literature. OMG .....
Hello Menna, good to hear from you gain. "OMG" is right; I know a little about the history of English literature, especially the Old and Middle English periods, but I'm not a literature specialist, sorry. Good luck with your next exam, though.
Is the " an integrated approach and teaching vocabulary to English learners " a general topic , for writing essay ?
O.K., because you have "and" between "an integrated approach" and "teaching vocabulary to English learners," you list two *very* general, broad topics, both of which by themselves are much too general, I think, for a single essay.
Maybe you meant to write "an integrated approach to teaching vocabulary to English learners" or "an integrated approach for teaching vocabulary to English learners," using either the preposition "to" or the preposition "for" to head the prepositional-phrase complement of "approach." Either choice would be a good way to limit your topic to make it less general and more appropriate for a single essay, and also grammatically either preposition fits because the next word, "teaching," is already in the gerund form of the verb "teach" which is required after prepositions.
There is a slight difference in the meanings of "approach to teaching" and "approach for teaching," however. If you use "to," the implication is that you may not yet have decided on how to deploy the approach yet but may be considering the approach more theoretically, whereas "approach for teaching" implies that you have decided on a definite approach and will describe it in detail in your essay. So choose which preposition to use based on what your own essay is really about.
Maybe you meant to write "an integrated approach to teaching vocabulary to English learners" or "an integrated approach for teaching vocabulary to English learners," using either the preposition "to" or the preposition "for" to head the prepositional-phrase complement of "approach." Either choice would be a good way to limit your topic to make it less general and more appropriate for a single essay, and also grammatically either preposition fits because the next word, "teaching," is already in the gerund form of the verb "teach" which is required after prepositions.
There is a slight difference in the meanings of "approach to teaching" and "approach for teaching," however. If you use "to," the implication is that you may not yet have decided on how to deploy the approach yet but may be considering the approach more theoretically, whereas "approach for teaching" implies that you have decided on a definite approach and will describe it in detail in your essay. So choose which preposition to use based on what your own essay is really about.
Thanks. .. I answered like that " my mother-in-law's cooking " in my writing Exam yesterday. .. It's the correct answer. ... You really made my day .???... Thanks ????✌??✔
I am very glad to hear that! Congratulations on getting the answer correct on your exam.
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My ....... (mother-in-law) cooking. Put mother-in-law in a genetic case
I believe by "genetic" you mean "genitive," which is the English case for showing possession (indeed, this is also called the "the possessive case" or just "the possessive").
The possessive of "mother-in-law" is " mother-in-law's ," with the " 's ," which is the usual case marker of the genitive in English, appended to "law" and not "mother" since even though the referent of the compound noun "mother-in-law" is a human female who is the mother of one's spouse and not the abstract noun "law," the components of this compound happen to be arranged such that "law" is the last or rightmost element of the stem and thus is the recipient of any inflectional suffixes (cf. plural "mother-in-laws" and plural genitive " mother-in-laws' ," alongside "mother's" and " mothers' ").
The possessive of "mother-in-law" is " mother-in-law's ," with the " 's ," which is the usual case marker of the genitive in English, appended to "law" and not "mother" since even though the referent of the compound noun "mother-in-law" is a human female who is the mother of one's spouse and not the abstract noun "law," the components of this compound happen to be arranged such that "law" is the last or rightmost element of the stem and thus is the recipient of any inflectional suffixes (cf. plural "mother-in-laws" and plural genitive " mother-in-laws' ," alongside "mother's" and " mothers' ").
How to form Adverbial phrase ... For Example " Edward dances occasionally" Rewrite by using adverbial phrase
O.K., as I discussed in my answer to your "misery" question (http://ask.fm/EnglishConsulting/answers/139402991613), I'll consider "adverbial phrase" to be a functional definition, that is, referring to any phrase that be used in the way adverbs are normally used, principally to indicate manner, time or place. That said, the closest equivalent to "Edward dances occasionally" using a phrase rather than the adverb "occasionally" that I can think of is "Edward dances on occasion."
Thank you so much, if it possible could you give me some website of articals or essays that may help me to write mine pleas??
Carter, R., and M. McCarthy (1988). _Vocabulary and Language Teaching_. London: Longman.
Coady, J. and T. Huckin, eds. (1997). Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: A Rationale for Pedagogy_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nation, P., ed. (1994). _New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary_. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
Coady, J. and T. Huckin, eds. (1997). Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: A Rationale for Pedagogy_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nation, P., ed. (1994). _New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary_. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.