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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Article 'a' and 'control'
Hi,
I have a few questions regarding the following sentence:
"A recent work by Ben-Chen et al. [Ben-Chen:2009:VHM] introduced the Variational Harmonic Mapping (VHM) method, which alleviates the manual editing of the cage, and enables instead control with intuitive positional and rotational constraints. This allows for a more refined cages to bound the deformed object, and comfortable control to the user, similar to the Laplacian-based methods."
1. Concerning the two occurrences of the word 'control'. The article 'a' needs to be added before an indefinite countable noun. The first 'control' is uncountable so it doesn't need 'a', and the second doesn't seem to me countable either, but somehow it feels like I should add the 'a'. So should I?
2. "..allows for a more...". Here there should be an 'a' before more, since it relates to refined and not to cages, right?
Thanks,
Zohar
I have a few questions regarding the following sentence:
"A recent work by Ben-Chen et al. [Ben-Chen:2009:VHM] introduced the Variational Harmonic Mapping (VHM) method, which alleviates the manual editing of the cage, and enables instead control with intuitive positional and rotational constraints. This allows for a more refined cages to bound the deformed object, and comfortable control to the user, similar to the Laplacian-based methods."
1. Concerning the two occurrences of the word 'control'. The article 'a' needs to be added before an indefinite countable noun. The first 'control' is uncountable so it doesn't need 'a', and the second doesn't seem to me countable either, but somehow it feels like I should add the 'a'. So should I?
2. "..allows for a more...". Here there should be an 'a' before more, since it relates to refined and not to cages, right?
Thanks,
Zohar
Top answer
Both occurrences of "control" are clearly uncountable. I don't share your preference for an article in the second one. " I've never thought about it, but somehow this seems like an uncountable usage to me.
- Both occurrences of "control" are clearly uncountable.
- I don't share your preference for an article in the second one.
- " I've never thought about it, but somehow this seems like an uncountable usage to me.
- " Re 2, "cages" is of course countable and plural , and no article should be used.
- "More refined" is just a modifier of cages.
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Both occurrences of "control" are clearly uncountable. I don't share your preference for an article in the second one.
Sometimes we say things like "This allows for a more comfortable control etc." I've never thought about it, but somehow this seems like an uncountable usage to me.
As an aside, note the infinitive "to bind the deformed object."
Re 2, "cag
Sometimes we say things like "This allows for a more comfortable control etc." I've never thought about it, but somehow this seems like an uncountable usage to me.
As an aside, note the infinitive "to bind the deformed object."
Re 2, "cag
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Thanks for settling my 'control' dilemma, and noticing my 'bound' typo (!).
Concerning the 'more', of course it relates to the cages, therefore there shouldn't be an aricle; what was I thinking...
Concerning the 'more', of course it relates to the cages, therefore there shouldn't be an aricle; what was I thinking...
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Glad you could follow my disorganized post! I was too tired and struggling.
Welcome to English Forums, Zohar. Thanks fo
Welcome to English Forums, Zohar. Thanks fo
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I'm not sure what you refer to, your post was great.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
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