@snailboat In some thread it's written that in US the recommend that version is natural, and in UK, recommend sb to do sth version. Though people is UK is adopting the US version as well.
Here in OALD you can find recommend sb to do sth version along with recommend that version
Can you explain this news headline "Greece forced to agree to austerity measures to get a four-month extension to its bailout despite election promise by PM not to compromise" what is "austerity" in this headline stands for?
Anyways, the OP had problem understanding the past continuous. They thought that the action had to be still "running" to mean one's able to use past continuous.
But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as
the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the
group’s theology, told me, “embarrassed and politically correct, with
a cotton-candy view of their own religion” that neglects “what their
religion has hi...
Because mentioning sheep wool as its translation makes me think that you assume that he based that expression on some other language (probably Arabic).
Where was I? Oh yes. A native would've assumingly put a "where" instead of semicolon, or a native would've gotten it (the sentence) in a whole other construction.
Can't we ask instead, Have you ever had a surgery? Is surgery a countable noun? I guess we can speak of surgeries in the plural form. Why should we use zero article in this sentence?
Update:
What about the phrase, You will not be emperor. Emperor is a countable noun according to the Cambridge di...
Here's another question posted yesterday, about almost the same phenomenon (removing the article to make a count noun into a mass noun). — Ben Kovitz9 hours ago
"I want to be pilot" is a very interesting example!
Anonymous
Although "I want to be pilot when I grow up" seems to me like a possible—if unlikely—sentence, it doesn't seem like a possible response to "What do you want to be when you grow up?" In that case I'd expect the article
Anonymous
Pilot without the article is a bare role NP
Anonymous
A more general discussion of the topic could be very interesting
Anonymous
It's still a count noun, though, and the point isn't really related to the surgery question
But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as
the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the
group’s theology, told me, “embarrassed and politically correct, with
a cotton-candy view of their own religion” that neglects “what their
religion has hi...
