Soooooo which is the right flag option if someone is asking for "which one is correct?" and provides no opinion of their own? These questions almost seem like "homework" questions. For example: I want to eat ___ apple. Which one is correct a/an?
Fill in the blank kind of questions that are usually seen in grammar books. What is the correct flag? No research efforts in off-topic? or basic questions on spelling, punctuation...?
Please, overlook my awful grammar, spelling errors, and what not.
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You can decide on a case-by-case basis, but we often go with “Details, please!” Basically, we want to know what the OP knows. We want to know what specifically they don’t understand and why they need help, because if we don’t know that, we can’t write good answers that really help them with their problem.
In short:
The supervisor's edit is ungrammatical because it uses two Determiners within the same immediate noun phrase. As shown below, this is ungrammatical in modern English:
*the my car
The full story:
the slimey dinosaurs
Noun phrases come in two chunks. They have a Determ...
I have a simple question that I don't want to ask in the main site as it may get flagged as "opinion-based" or "no details/research". How does one avoid the ambiguity in a sentence like this: "I want a big apple and an orange". So you only want a big apple and don't care about the size of the orange?
Should we say: I want a big apple and a big orange?
In short:
The supervisor's edit is ungrammatical because it uses two Determiners within the same immediate noun phrase. As shown below, this is ungrammatical in modern English:
*the my car
The full story:
the slimey dinosaurs
Noun phrases come in two chunks. They have a Determ...
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