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Hello, Manaka, and welcome to the Grammar Exchange. Actually, your question is not about grammar, but, being your first question, I'll help you all the same. In a library you can find poetry (lyric genre), plays (drama), fiction (narrative genre: novels and short stories), and non-fiction. In this Wikipedia article you can find a long list of different types of books. "subject" means an altogether different thing, being closer to "topic" or "theme." For example, you can find books of...Read More...

Hi, Subhajit123, As I told you in this other thread which you seem to have overlooked, the article "the" before postmodified plural nouns seems to have a totalizing effect ( all the students, all the people). Only in (1) is "the" actually required, and that is because the subject complement is quite definite: 1. The people who stand by you in your tough times are the best friends of yours (I prefer: your best friends ). When the article is not there, it may sound more natural to use "some"...Read More...

Hi, Fujibei, This question: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=77&t=11 does appear in U.S. EIA site and seems to be quoted by other scientific publications. "how much" refers to the volume of the emissions. "how many" could perhaps be used to refer to different instances or occurrences of emission, which is not the meaning that wants to be conveyed. I would definitely have used "is" instead of "are": - How much of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions is associated with electricity...Read More...

Hi, wpc205, Sorry for not answering this question -- which you had published some time ago -- earlier. The point is I didn't have at the time -- and still don't have -- any source to support my reply other than my experience as a translator, which has allowed me to see and analyze different types of texts. In English there is indeed a strong tendency to capitalize nouns if they refer to a term of key importance within a text. The capitals will tend to be dropped if the noun is used in the...Read More...

Hi, Subhajit123, Before dealing with the article issue, please notice that "be aware" requires the preposition "of" if the object one is aware of is mentioned (in this case, the object is "one thing"). Also pay more attention to your spelling. In such cases, even if you refer to all the people or all the teachers (and not to some specific ones), you can use the definite article. I'd say that in this particular case the definite article makes the phrase more comprehensive than the zero...Read More...

Hi, Ahmed, Use: 'interview'. For more information, See: https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/interviewRead More...

I know. This is the typical case where one has to find the rule by comparing examples. My first question is, why is this sentence incorrect?: a. The apples are fresher than were bought yesterday. I think it has to do with the lack of identity between the current apples and the ones bought yesterday. My first impression is that, for "as" and "than" to work in reduced clauses, there must be actual or potential identity between the two things being compared. b. lf you are overqualified for a...Read More...

Thank you. I will keep in mind about the title thing.Read More...

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Thank you so much for all the great feedback, DocV. I really appreciate it. I know what you mean about the two men in question, but I figured the reader would make the adjustment in her mind. I'll give it some thought. Thank you for "wrested"! I was indeed wondering about that. Re: "by some stroke of happenstance...", the word "manufacture" always felt too industrial to me. And perhaps "happenstance" isn't right either. I wonder if it was the words or the structure that you found...Read More...

That's not the way this website works. Each discussion thread should be devoted to one particular grammatical topic, and the example sentence(s) should relate to that topic, as should the title of the thread. Here you have simply asked for answers to a random set of test questions, each of which has nothing to do with the other, and issued a command ("choose the correct answer") as the title of the thread. If you start a thread like this in the future, please expect to have it deleted.Read More...

Ahmed, Do you think that the "no" could be omitted if we understand "the outside world" to mean the immediate natural setting, rather than the city from which we have momentarily escaped? Even if so, I agree that 'contact', 'communication', 'connection' and '[a] link' are all possible answers here. DocVRead More...

What is the difference between : link and connect ?Read More...

Hi, Kyle, No, that sentence isn't correct. The adverbial of duration, "(for) a long time now ," is incompatible with the past tense. One possible revision is the one you've suggested. Here is another possible revision, which gives a different meaning. Which you should choose depends on whether the teacher still teaches there. My science teacher was teaching there (for) a long time. My science teacher taught there (for) a long time.Read More...