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Lucas21c Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Article

I am not sure whether the following one is okay and the definite articles are need.
Could you check it?
Thank you.

It was unclearly concluded, so I couldn’t understand the correlation enough between the body and the conclusion.
  

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The sentence is correct as written. Absolutely neither of the first two articles can be omitted. The third one can be omitted, but for an English learner you shouldn't omit it, because the general "rule" (I myself invented this) is: when in doubt, put the article (definite or indefinite) in, even if you make a grammatical error, because having an extraneous article is much less bad than leaving one out.

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  • The sentence is correct as written.
  • Absolutely neither of the first two articles can be omitted.
  • The third one can be omitted, but for an English learner you shouldn't omit it, because the general "rule" (I myself invented this) is: when in doubt, put the article (definite or indefinite) in, even if you make a grammatical error, because having an extraneous article is much less bad than leaving one out.
  • If either the first or second article were omitted, it would sound terrible, illiterate.
  • English, particularly American-style English, is an article-heavy language; Americans especially just love their articles.
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The sentence is correct as written. Absolutely neither of the first two articles can be omitted. The third one can be omitted, but for an English learner you shouldn't omit it, because the general "rule" (I myself invented this) is: when in doubt, put the article (definite or indefinite) in, even if you make a grammatical error, because having an extraneous article is much less bad than leaving
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