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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
answer for two questions please
1. Is it OK to put the article "a" there. Whenever I see the adjective "the," I have a tendancy to put the.
how to go a next step in the process
2. Let's say that you want to say there aren't any cats. How would you say it?
There isn't any cat.
There aren't any cats.
Would you say that both are acceptable and need not be distinguished?
how to go a next step in the process
2. Let's say that you want to say there aren't any cats. How would you say it?
There isn't any cat.
There aren't any cats.
Would you say that both are acceptable and need not be distinguished?
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1. "The" sounds better to me. In most cases, the person doing this will want to go to THE next step, not any future step.
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- "The" sounds better to me.
- In most cases, the person doing this will want to go to THE next step, not any future step.
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- I swear we had this exact conversation previously.
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1. "The" sounds better to me. In most cases, the person doing this will want to go to THE next step, not any future step.
2. I swear we had this exact conversation previously.
There aren't any cats sounds better most of the time.
I seem to remember an example that someone came up with for the "isn't any" example where someone that there is a cat, and you look, an
2. I swear we had this exact conversation previously.
There aren't any cats sounds better most of the time.
I seem to remember an example that someone came up with for the "isn't any" example where someone that there is a cat, and you look, an
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Really, am I the only person having deja vu reading this?No. It's just that we've had more than a thousand posts on articles and is/arein the last six weeks or so, and they all run together in our minds because we've all answered the same or similar posts 100 times each. It's strange how we can go 10 months without a certain type of question, and then
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