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Asked on December 19, 2021 in American english.
Is it because a noun phrase in English calls for a determiner, and in English (as opposed to other languages), possesive pronouns function as determiners? Do you recognize these pronominal possessive
determiners in modern English as my, your, her, my, her, their, their, and whom (as in Whose coats are this? The guy whose car was stolen ). As noted above, they indicate definiteness, like the definite article the.
By contrast, in my grill, the word my tends to be a more suitable determiner than the, simply because a perfect example matches the word, which might be why, or what should be used, than my grill.
Norsely, it has nothing primarily to do with possession (cf. My street ( my street); but solely the combination of grammatical obligation and need for semantic clarity.
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Asked on December 19, 2021 in American english.
Is it because a noun phrase in English calls for a determiner, and in English (as opposed to other languages), possesive pronouns function as determiners? Do you recognize these pronominal possessive
determiners in modern English as my, your, her, my, her, their, their, and whom (as in Whose coats are this? The guy whose car was stolen ). As noted above, they indicate definiteness, like the definite article the.
By contrast, in my grill, the word my tends to be a more suitable determiner than the, simply because a perfect example matches the word, which might be why, or what should be used, than my grill.
Norsely, it has nothing primarily to do with possession (cf. My street ( my street); but solely the combination of grammatical obligation and need for semantic clarity.
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Asked on December 3, 2021 in American english.
Is it because a noun phrase in English calls for a determiner, and in English (as opposed to other languages), possesive pronouns function as determiners? Do you recognize these pronominal possessive
determiners in modern English as my, your, her, my, her, their, their, and whom (as in Whose coats are this? The guy whose car was stolen ). As noted above, they indicate definiteness, like the definite article the.
By contrast, in my grill, the word my tends to be a more suitable determiner than the, simply because a perfect example matches the word, which might be why, or what should be used, than my grill.
Norsely, it has nothing primarily to do with possession (cf. My street ( my street); but solely the combination of grammatical obligation and need for semantic clarity.
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Asked on October 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
In my opinion, moreover sits nicely in that paragraph quoted.
An idiomatic expression with the same meaning might be to boot : ‘as well’, ‘in addition’. Descended from OE bt ‘advantage, remedy’. Why do we say “to boot”? here at EL&U.
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Asked on October 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
In my opinion, moreover sits nicely in that paragraph quoted.
An idiomatic expression with the same meaning might be to boot : ‘as well’, ‘in addition’. Descended from OE bt ‘advantage, remedy’. Why do we say “to boot”? here at EL&U.
u like to see interesting..?
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Asked on October 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
In my opinion, moreover sits nicely in that paragraph quoted.
An idiomatic expression with the same meaning might be to boot : ‘as well’, ‘in addition’. Descended from OE bt ‘advantage, remedy’. Why do we say “to boot”? here at EL&U.
u like to see interesting..?
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Asked on October 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
In my opinion, moreover sits nicely in that paragraph quoted.
An idiomatic expression with the same meaning might be to boot : ‘as well’, ‘in addition’. Descended from OE bt ‘advantage, remedy’. Why do we say “to boot”? here at EL&U.
u like to see interesting..?
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Asked on October 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
In my opinion, moreover sits nicely in that paragraph quoted.
An idiomatic expression with the same meaning might be to boot : ‘as well’, ‘in addition’. Descended from OE bt ‘advantage, remedy’. Why do we say “to boot”? here at EL&U.
u like to see interesting..?
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Asked on October 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
In my opinion, moreover sits nicely in that paragraph quoted.
An idiomatic expression with the same meaning might be to boot : ‘as well’, ‘in addition’. Descended from OE bt ‘advantage, remedy’. Why do we say “to boot”? here at EL&U.
u like to see interesting..?
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- 144870 votes
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Asked on October 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
In my opinion, moreover sits nicely in that paragraph quoted.
An idiomatic expression with the same meaning might be to boot : ‘as well’, ‘in addition’. Descended from OE bt ‘advantage, remedy’. Why do we say “to boot”? here at EL&U.
u like to see interesting..?
- 393604 views
- 327 answers
- 144870 votes