=> I have more question.For now I can mention some problems with application => of enlish prepositions and sometimes def. and undef. articles.Recently I => found the sentence "He shot a final arrow from his bow". My book of english => ^ => grammar couldn't explain something like this. This seems pretty straight-forward, unless there's something about this question that I'm missing. "a final" means the same thing as "one final"; it is a slightly emphatic expression and means the same thing as "a last" or "one last." So your sentence implies something like this: He shot a bunch of arrows. And then he shot one more, the last one. ============================================================= Michael G. Southwell Department of English York College/CUNY Jamaica, NY 11451 718/262-2470 [log in to unmask] http://sun3.york.cuny.edu/~southwel/southwell.html =============================================================