[Koir]

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

Thanks a lot, manymen and Lizh.


I see. I should have written “the story isn’t finished.” And “Every volume was a bestseller.”
Still I don’t see why I can’t write it “The every volume…”.

The concept can't be expressed in that way because "the" and "every" have essentially the same purpose. They give the noun "volume" some definition so it makes sense as the subject of the sentence.

"The volume" - limited subject that refers to only one book (in this context). Only one book was a bestseller, the others did not sell a lot of copies.
"Every volume" - larger subject that includes each book in the series, but compares their individual sales amounts as bestselling books.

I see. You don’t say “many of the readers.” But still I don’t see why I can’t say “many of the readers”. Learning English is too difficult…

"Many of her readers" is the correct form as she is an author. Looking at just the words, it's easy to think that people are reading *her* and not her books. But in this context her status as an author means that people read the books she writes, so they are "her readers".

About “I’ve written about…”.
My text book says that when I mention about the date or when it happened, I can’t use a perfect form, but my text book may be incorrect again.

Thank you!

The proper expression is "I wrote about...". You talked about a similar subject in an earlier blog post, so it occured in the past.

Originally Posted by YuriTokoro

Koir. I don't understand what this sentense means.

Apologies. It was a very formal, restrained way of saying "Instead of just saying it's wrong, try correcting it so the person will understand more."