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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Dharmadeva wrote:

>       An Article is a word generally before a noun or a
> noun equivalent.

This sounds a bit vague (and what's a "noun equivalent" when it's at
home?).

> Generally three kinds of articles are to be
> recognised in English grammar--
> (1) Definite,
> (2) Indefinite (General) and
> (3) Numeral.
> 
>       In some opinion an Article is a kind of adjective but
> some others differ from them.

Well, yes, but then in some opinion the Earth is flat.
 
>       Definite Article:
> 
>       THE, THAT, THOSE may be treated as Definite article.

They certainly appear to occupy similar syntactic positions. Whether we
want to call them all 'definite articles' is another matter.

>       Indefinite (General) Article:
> 
>       "ONE who knows French may easily learn Spanish." :
> "For learning Bengali ONE may not go to Calcutta; ONE may
> learn the same from Benares."
> 
> Here 'one' is an Indefinite
> article. Here 'one' does not indicate any particular person
> but denotes a person in general.

Syntactically it behaves quite differently from 'the/that/those'. Why do
you want to lump it into the same category "article"?

>       Numeral Article:
> 
>       "700 Bengali youths under the leadership of Prince
> Vijaya sim'ha went to Lanka in 534 B.C."
> 
> Here '700' is a Numeral Article.

How do you account for the grammaticality of:

  The 700 Bengali youths.
  These 700 Bengali youths.

but the ungrammaticality of:

 *The these Bengali yuouths.

?

And what abvout possessives? And other words like 'some', 'certain',
'said', 'any', 'few'...?

-- 
Neil Coffey    http://ox.compsoc.net/~neil/
"Plus nous aurons de motz en notre langue, plus elle sera parfaicte"
                                                           [Ronsard]

not sure if this is mainly for learning english the language, but HELP ME
HELP ME.

I have a lot of english literature (Alevel standard) to be in v. soon and I
really need some help with tackling Johnathan swift a modest proposal essay
on what he is protesting about and his style., Any one who can hekpl,
please send me anything.  thankyou thankyou, n a o m i h a l l

On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 16:48:30 GMT, "naomi hall" <peterhall@lineone.net>
wrote:

[...]

>I have a lot of english literature (Alevel standard) to be in v. soon and I
>really need some help with tackling Johnathan swift a modest proposal essay
>on what he is protesting about and his style., Any one who can hekpl,
>please send me anything.  thankyou thankyou, n a o m i h a l l

Here is a picture of a baby.

bjg

Brian J Goggin wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 16:48:30 GMT, "naomi hall" <peterhall@lineone.net>
> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >I have a lot of english literature (Alevel standard) to be in v. soon and I
> >really need some help with tackling Johnathan swift a modest proposal essay
> >on what he is protesting about and his style., Any one who can hekpl,
> >please send me anything.  thankyou thankyou, n a o m i h a l l
> 
> Here is a picture of a baby.

You forgot the recipe.

---
Bill Lieblich

I cannot agree to the definitions stated in the original posting.

What I can only agree to is that indefinite articles include "a" and "an"
and the definite article includes "the".

I would call "that", "these", etc as "demonstrative determiners".

And this is the first time I've heard people treat articles "as
adjectives" though I've heard some people treat possessive determiners as
adjectives.

Rgds,
Ah Fung 		            	http://mfchan.someone.net
	*Please do not cross-post to irrelevant newsgroup*

William Lieblich <wcl@his.com> wrote:

> Brian J Goggin wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 16:48:30 GMT, "naomi hall" <peterhall@lineone.net>
> > wrote:

> > >I have a lot of english literature (Alevel standard) to be in v. soon and I
> > >really need some help with tackling Johnathan swift a modest proposal essay
> > >on what he is protesting about and his style., Any one who can hekpl,
> > >please send me anything.  thankyou thankyou, n a o m i h a l l
> > 
> > Here is a picture of a baby.
> 
> You forgot the recipe.

Knock it off, guys. The poster asked you to hekpl, and all you're doing
is legpling.

-- 
David

On Sun, 03 Jan 1999 00:26:21 -0500, William Lieblich <wcl@his.com>
wrote:

>Brian J Goggin wrote:

>> On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 16:48:30 GMT, "naomi hall" <peterhall@lineone.net>
>> wrote:
 
>> [...]

>> >I have a lot of english literature (Alevel standard) to be in v. soon and I
>> >really need some help with tackling Johnathan swift a modest proposal essay
>> >on what he is protesting about and his style., Any one who can hekpl,
>> >please send me anything.  thankyou thankyou, n a o m i h a l l
 
>> Here is a picture of a baby.

>You forgot the recipe.

Never mind, here's an apple to put in its mouth.

John

On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 16:48:30 GMT, "naomi hall" <peterhall@lineone.net>
wrote:


>not sure if this is mainly for learning english the language, but HELP ME
>HELP ME.

>I have a lot of english literature (Alevel standard) to be in v. soon and I
>really need some help with tackling Johnathan swift a modest proposal essay
>on what he is protesting about and his style., Any one who can hekpl,
>please send me anything.  thankyou thankyou, n a o m i h a l l

Try approaching it from the point of view of energy (calorie) flows,
discussing whether or not Swift realised his proposal would not work
in practice[1], and considering the implications for his stature as a
satirist.

[1] You may like to put in a couple of paragraphs about the moons of
Mars, too.

HTH

John