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Marold Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

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There are a lot of rather frequent words and their articles about which I still have my doubts as to whether I write them correctly.

grammar, present perfect, passive voice...

Does a word grammar take a definite article or it behaves as an uncountable noun, or rather, in which cases it has or doesn't have a definite article.

What about tenses? Should I write them solely with a definite article or they have no article?

Thank you very much.
  

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Grammar is uncountable unless you are speaking of an example of it in a particular phrase or sentence or unless you are comparing the grammars of two languages. The names of the verb forms operate similarly.

— Mister Micawber

  • Grammar is uncountable unless you are speaking of an example of it in a particular phrase or sentence or unless you are comparing the grammars of two languages.
  • The names of the verb forms operate similarly.
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Grammar is uncountable unless you are speaking of an example of it in a particular phrase or sentence or unless you are comparing the grammars of two languages. The names of the verb forms operate similarly.
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So particularly in this sentence:

"Present perfect is more confusing compared to past simple." - Correct or not?
"What I find very difficult is a passive voice." - Correct or not?
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"Present perfect is more confusing than past simple." - Correct.
"What I find very difficult is passive voice." - Correct.
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