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This is the best car in the garage. We use articles like the and a before nouns, like car. The word "best" is an adjective, and adjectives do not take articles by themselves. Because the noun
This is the best car in the garage. We use articles like the and a before nouns, like car. The word "best" is an adjective, and adjectives do not take articles by themselves. Because the noun
Both express possession, of course. We use ''s with singular nouns. For example, " my son''s toys " will be "the toys that belong to my son". We use only an apostrophe ('') after plural nouns
Here are the relevant rules: A clause never has more than one finite verb - a verb that is marked for tense, person and number (to the extent that it can be marked for any of these
Not sure I agree with that. If I say "Michael Jordan was the best ever" I don''t mean he was the best up to then, and there may have been someone better since. I mean nobody, before or
I''m using macOS Catalina and it''s preventing me from sharing my screen in web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, and in other applications too. How do I properly set up
The correct phrasing is my question is. As you rightly note, my is a possessive adjective and mine is a possessive pronoun. So, this means you use my where you already have a noun (such
When writing emails and articles I often find myself in the need to use a long/em dash — character, not to be confused with the hyphen - character. Normally what I end up doing is I type two
Wiktionary lists re as a preposition that means “About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters and documents”, while OED1 (1914) says: Re sb² [Ablative of L. res thing, affair.]
I am trying to debug a crashed (or hanging) app. How do I get the diagnostic files from the crash?
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