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Alfred Hoffman Posted 12 years ago
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International tourism facilitates the mutual understanding among various nations.

In this sentence, whether should I use "the" before mutual understanding?

Generally speaking, should "the" be used before nouns followed by prepositional phrase?
  

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Generally speaking, should "the" be used before nouns followed by prepositional phrase? In such a context, I'd drop the determiner "the" treating the noun "understanding", here, as uncountable.

  • Generally speaking, should "the" be used before nouns followed by prepositional phrase?
  • In such a context, I'd drop the determiner "the" treating the noun "understanding", here, as uncountable.
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Alfred Hoffman International tourism facilitates the mutual understanding among various nations.In this sentence, whether should I use "the" before mutual understanding?Generally speaking, should "the" be used before nouns followed by prepositional phrase?
In such a context, I'd drop the determiner "the" treating the noun "understanding", here, as uncountable.

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