Would you please tell me if I need to use an or the in before average in the context below? 176cm is an/the average height for men in the US. I’ve heard both. Are both acceptable? If so, can you tell me what is the slight difference between them. Answer You would say "176cm is … Read more
This is from a TIME article. The ensuing conflicts left Buterin with culture shock. In the space of a few months, he had gone from a cloistered life of writing code and technical articles to a that of a decisionmaker grappling with bloated egos and power struggles. I wonder why there is the indefinite article … Read more
I found both forms (with and without "a") on the Internet. I don’t know which one is more acceptable. Is it an idiom? https://wolfstone.za.com/blog/1-solid-like-stone-to-stone-like-solid https://seekingalpha.com/article/2095473-suncor-energy-solid-like-a-stone Answer As this Ngram graph shows, neither expression is particularly common: in my opinion, neither is idiomatic either. Reading the full text of the two articles, there are sufficient grammatical … Read more
Example sentence: He may have a personality disorder, a depressive disorder, or autism spectrum disorder. Why is that personality disorder and depressive disorder requires an a but not autism spectrum disorder? (Or maybe I’m wrong about this?) Answer Because ASD is the name of a condition (and is often written with initial capitals). The other … Read more
I know that a or an in sentences like the following is your choice–it can be used there or omitted as you prefer. We need a car or (a) bike to get out of this area. Russian soldiers will be here soon. I’d like to ask whether the second article a in the following can … Read more
Yesterday I took a photo of raindrops and posted it to Instagram. I used “Raindrops on the window pane” as the description. Then I started to think: Why did I use the definite article here? When I said the phrase in my mind with the indefinite article, “Raindrops on a window pane”, it didn’t sound … Read more
in this phrase(I am not sure this is a phrase)but Why should I use "a" before "a bit better", "a little higher" and "a bit harsh"? I know this is an article( a or the) and I know why I need to use a or the before such as an apple, the school, a store … Read more
Can we use article with each noun separately in a sentence or one is enough as in the following sentence; Draw a car, a truck and a van. Or Draw a car, truck and van Draw a car, truck and a van. Answer Either with just the first, or with all of them. You can’t … Read more
You can build your first app on a small, single database at low cost in the serverless compute tier or a small compute size in the provisioned. Should we use the indefinite article (a low cost) or the zero article (low cost omitting "a") in the sentence above? Answer Either the "a article" or the … Read more
Let’s say there’s a service that allows me to create and edit web pages. And I’m filing a bug report: I can’t edit a specific page: https://… On one hand, using "specific" suggests "the," but it’s the first time I’m mentioning the page, which suggests "a." What should I use? On a side note, I … Read more
