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Re: don't you mean or do you mean?
Don't you mean X? = 'I think you mean X. Am I right?'
Do you mean X? = 'I don't know whether you mean X or not. Which is true?'
Re: Usage
Articles are useful in making complicated sentences much clearer.
If you want to write about
1. an application
2. an approval process
then you should help the reader by using two articles.
The only time it's helpful to omit the second article is when the two noun represent a closely related pair of things such as the top and bottom, the start and finish, the mother and father. There are two problems with application and approval process
- The meaning: They're not an obvious pair
- The difference in form: One is a single noun and the other is a compound of two nouns
The other article problem was with the word loan. This is a COUNTABLE NOUN, so the grammar insists on an article or some other DETERMINER before the SINGULAR form:
a loan, the loan, this loan, that loan, my loan, your loan etc or the NUMERAL one loan
Before the plural form loans we can have no article if the meaning is INDEFINITE. Some grammar books call this the ZERO ARTICLE.
The only other use of a ZERO ARTICLE is when the noun is UNCOUNTABLE.
Home-construction is an example. Although the simple noun construction can be COUNTABLE (one construction, two constructions etc) it can also be ABSTRACT and grammatically UNCOUNTABLE. The compound home-construction could possibly be used to mean 'one example of a home being built' but this would be unusual and possibly confusing. It normally refers to the ABSTRACT concept of constructing homes, so we would say
a loan for home-construction
not
a loan for a home-construction.
Approval is another noun that is UNCOUNTABLE in the sense that you're using it — in the phrase approval process. This can be rephrased as
the process of approval
not
the process of an approval.
Re: Which is the correct one?
The first won't do, but Farcical Tales is a possible phrase.
There's a difference between farce and a farce, so you must decide which you mean,
A farce (PLURAL farces) is a comic play of a particular type .
You can also use a farce to mean 'a situation which is like a farce'.
[I don't think I'd use the PLURAL farces to mean 'situations which are like farces']
Farce (no PLURAL) is the genre, that is to say the type of comedy.
I suggest you look carefully at the examples for meanings 1, 1.1 and 1.2 here:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/farce
An important question is whether you are discussing a variety of plays (or situations) or just one.
The only justification for Tales of a Farce is if there are several stories concerning one play (or situation)
Re: 's or Not?
'Monday's, Tuesday's and Wednesday's meetings were cancelled.' is more logical.
Strictly speaking 'Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday's meetings were cancelled.' states that Monday was cancelled, Tuesday was cancelled and Wednesday's meetings were cancelled. However, nobody would assume that you meant to say this.
Personally I would prefer to say
'Monday's, Tuesday's and Wednesday's meetings were all cancelled.'
or
All meetings were cancelled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Normally, I would mark with possessive -'s each possessor in a chain linked by and — with these exceptions
1. One possession is shared e.g. John and Mary's house
2. The possessors constitute a group e.g. the King and Queen's various attendants, Oxford and Cambridge's Colleges,
In writing, I would avoid possessive -'s forms for non-human possessors e.g. the meetings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednessday, the Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday is just a list of days — no more a group than Saturday, Thursday and Friday or any other selection.
Re: sentence formation and punctuation
@manthanrajaswami the vocabulary you've chose is extremely difficult for anybody to use — even using one of those words in a very simple sentence.
For example, here's one of your sentences with all the difficult words bold and struck through
Instead her cosmos fettering marine eyes, glowing his filial porous face, shone his happiness lambent than pulsar.
The verbs glow and shine are not unusual as INTRANSITIVE VERBS — that is, verbs without a grammatical OBJECT. But the way you use them here is just as strange as the words I've highlighted. Another grammatical error is the use of than without a COMPARATIVE form.
Re: which one is correct "to go/going"? why?
A rule of thumb — that is, a simple rule which is almost always true — is that you shouldn't mix to- forms and -ing forms.
Hamlet doesn't say To be or not being and he doesn't say Being or not to be.
We say Seeing is believing. We don't say Seeing is to believe or To see is believing.
This is why we wouldn't say
Going out with your friends is more interesting than to go out with your family.
The most natural version is
Going out with your friends is more interesting than going out with your family.
But it's also possible to say
To go out with your friends is more interesting than to go out with your family.
(I would repeat the word out because go and go out have very different meanings.)