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Dear Sir/Madam,
Could you please tell me where I should put the article in the following sentences?
1) .. Queen Elisabeth and .. Duke of Edinburgh have invited.. King of Belgium and .. Queen Fabiola. I've never seen .. Queen on television but I've heard her on the radio.
2) .. Lake Leman is also called .. Lake of Geneva.
3)Do you know how many people have .. moral courage, for instancethe courage of their convictions?
4) .. man is the king of the universe.
5) .. Chineese cooking and .. French cooking are said to be thebest in the world.
6) He is very fond of birds, he has written a book about ..red-headed woodpecker and another about .. ostriches.
7) .. King Henry VIII broke with the Pope and proclaimed himself.. head of .. Church in England.
8) There are many coal mines in Belgium, ... Saar and .. Ruhr.
9) .. memory is one of the most valuable faculties of .. mind.
10) He is learning Greek. -Do you mean .. modern Greek or .. Greekof Plato and Sophocles?
Thank you,
HF
  

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} Dear Sir/Madam, Make up your mind. } Could you please tell me where I should put the article in the } following sentences? Is this (by any chance) homework?

  • } Dear Sir/Madam, Make up your mind.
  • } Could you please tell me where I should put the article in the } following sentences?
  • Is this (by any chance) homework?
  • A class assignment?
  • Or just a practice test?
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} Dear Sir/Madam,
Make up your mind.
} Could you please tell me where I should put the article in the } following sentences?
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Is this (by any chance) homework? A class assignment? Or just a practice test?

R. J. Valentine
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[nq:1]Dear Sir/Madam, Could you please tell me where I should put the article in the following sentences?[/nq]
Don't worry. Either leave the articles out entirely, or use them ubiquitously; either way you will seem unutterably charming.
[nq:1]1) .. Queen Elisabeth and .. Duke of Edinburgh have invited .. King of Belgium and .. Queen Fabiola. I've never seen .. Queen on television but I've
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[nq:2]5) .. Chineese cooking and .. French cooking are said to be the best in the world.[/nq]
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"Cooking" should be "cuisine".[/nq]
Ain't necessarily so.
Adrian
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I see nobody's bothered to answer your questions. It does smell of a homework assignment, which is probably why you didn't get useful responses.
[nq:1]1) .. Queen Elisabeth and .. Duke of Edinburgh have invited .. King of Belgium and .. Queen Fabiola. I've never seen .. Queen on television but I've heard her on the radio.[/nq]
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh have invited the King
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[nq:1](. . .) The formulation "Queen (or Duke) so-and-so" never takes the definite article; the title is the title of a particular named person (a proper noun).[/nq]
If we want to give advice, especially in this newsgroup, to someone who seems to be an ESL (= EFL or ESOL) student of English then we should not represent universal standard English as allowing "Duke" as a prenominal title in the
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[nq:1]If we want to give advice, especially in this newsgroup, to someone who seems to be an ESL (= EFL ... Queen Elizabeth's husband that's equivalent tothe prenominal title "Queen" is "Prince", and in his case it's used as "Prince Philip".[/nq]
1. This is generally correct. Dukes (and other noblemen)are named in English for places, e.g. Kent, Westminster, thus named the Duke of Gloucester, a
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Don Phillipson at (Email Removed) says in (MESSAGE):
[nq:2]If we want to give advice, especially in this newsgroup, ... "Prince", and in his case it's used as "Prince Philip".[/nq]
[nq:1]1. This is generally correct. Dukes (and other noblemen) are named in English for places, e.g. Kent, Westminster, thus named ... personal name was well known and widely used before he was ennobled. Similar
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[nq:2](. . .) The formulation "Queen (or Duke) so-and-so" never ... the title of a particular named person (a proper noun).[/nq]
[nq:1]If we want to give advice, especially in this newsgroup, to someone who seems to be an ESL (= EFL ... Elizabeth's husband that's equivalent to the prenominal title "Queen" is "Prince", and in his case it's used as "Prince Philip".[/nq]
True, of course, but
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[nq:2]If we want to give advice, especially in this newsgroup, ... "Prince", and in his case it's used as "Prince Philip".[/nq]
[nq:1]True, of course, but Philip is also the Duke of Edinburgh. In the event that Prince Charles marries Mrs Parker-Bowles ... I suppose she would become a duchess. I wonder if protocol would demand that she be addressed as Queen Camilla?[/nq]
I get the impressio
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[nq:2]In the event that Prince Charles marries Mrs Parker-Bowles and ... protocol would demand that she be addressed as Queen Camilla?[/nq]
[nq:1]I get the impression that it would be a morganatic marriage.[/nq]
I don't think Britain contemplates that concept any longer.

Matti

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