In short, with countable singular nouns, you have to have a determiner. Use whatever determiner you need; in particular, use “the” if you’re distinguishing the noun from other things; use “a” if you’re not. With proper nouns, plural nouns, and mass nouns, determiners aren’t neces...
If you want to usehaveorhasin questions and negatives, the rules change and you always use thehaveform and a form of the verbdo, even for third-person singular verbs.Take a look at some examples: I don’thaveany money. She doesn’thavetime. ...
But it might also have the force of prompting him to get busy. Exodus 32:1 tn The plural translation is required here (although the form itself could be singular in meaning) because the verb that follows in the relative clause is a plural verb. Exodus 32:1 tn The text has “this ...
Rejection in Samaria - Now when the days drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem. He sent messengers on ahead
Substantiate what the grammatical function of erg lekker (‘very good’) is in the following sentence: Explain whether it is best to use a singular or a plural finite form of the finite verb in sentences of the type: De soep smaakt erg lekker Dit soort dieren is/zijn uitgestorven. (‘...
It is well known that morphological imperative paradigms may extend to third, first plural and, more rarely, to the first-person singular (van der Auwera et al. 2005; Aikhenvald 2010: 76). To quote one particularly striking case, in Nivkh (an isolate spoken around the low reaches of Amur...
But it might also have the force of prompting him to get busy. Exodus 32:1 tn The plural translation is required here (although the form itself could be singular in meaning) because the verb that follows in the relative clause is a plural verb. Exodus 32:1 tn The text has “this ...
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