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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

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00Should I put 01i00it02i00 or 01i00them02i00 for the underlined part? I got this dialogue from a post in this forum.02br
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00A: I am hungry, did you bring any lunch?02br
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00B: I made some and brought 01b01u00it or them ?????02u02b00 as well. 02br
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00Second part00:02br
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00Is putting no artlcles permissable under these sentential cases?02br
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00You are Canadian. (not a Canadian?) 02br
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00He is Canadian. (not a Canadian?)02br
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00Third part00:02br
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00Which one is correct?02br
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00... will send them by the e-mail.02br
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00... will send them by e-mail.0-
  

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0Hello02br 02br 00"Lunch" can be countable as well as uncountable. When I was young, I usually brought two lunches with me so that for such a case we might say "he brought them from home". 02br 02br 00You can say both "He is a Canadian" and "He is Canadian".

— Paco2004

  • 0Hello02br 02br 00"Lunch" can be countable as well as uncountable.
  • When I was young, I usually brought two lunches with me so that for such a case we might say "he brought them from home".
  • 02br 02br 00You can say both "He is a Canadian" and "He is Canadian".
  • 02br 02br 00paco 0-
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0Hello02br
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00"Lunch" can be countable as well as uncountable. When I was young, I usually brought two lunches with me so that for such a case we might say "he brought them from home". But otherwise (i.e., "brought a lunch" or "brought lunch"), "it" is appropriate for its pronoun.02br
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00You can say both "He is a Canadian" and "He is Canadian". If
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0Thank you very much.02br
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00If in the sentence "He is Canadian", the "Canadian" can assume the roles of both a noun and adjective. How about the words below? Can they assume the two grammatical functions too?02br
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001) He is Hinduist.02br
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00 He is a Hinduist.02br
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002) He is bank teller.02br
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0I haven't found "hinduist" in the Cambridge online. It does appear in Google, both as an adjective and as a noun, so I guess you can use both, as Paco explained.02br
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00As far as jobs are concerned, you need the "a" before the name of the job: "he's 01b00a02b00 bank teller".0-
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0 "He is a Hindu" is the commonest phrase.02br
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0Thank you.02br
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00Sometimes I have hard time being able to differentiate if a word can be an adjective on a sentence or a noun in a sentence. Do you have any tips for me to help me to make that distinction more clearly.02br
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00This case it is acting as an adjective too. Mr. Clive used this phrase. 02br
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01i00Assuming
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0Hi,02br
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01i00Assuming you are male ...02i00 01font00here, the absence of an article signals that 'male' is an adjective.02font02br
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01font00Please permit me to comment on your use of 00Mr. Clive.00 I02font01font00
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0Hi,02br
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00I'd like to add another brief comment on the subject of 01font00Mr.02font02br
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01font00Clive02font00 is a first name. Titles are not normally used with first names, so that's why I wrote what I did.02br
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0Believer,02br
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00Could you please find different titles for your questions? We have 3 threads named "three questions", so it's not always easy for us to see which we have answered... Thanks!0-
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