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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
a/the quality
1. Education for All: Goal 6. Improving all aspects of the quality of education.
2. Governments and all other EFA partners must work together to ensure basic education of quality for all, regardless of gender, wealth, location, language or ethnic origin.
3. Stanford scholars find varying quality of education in BRICs
Q) I'm not sure if these my question works without the context of these three sentences. What I want to know is the reason why "the" is added in #1 and not in #2 which looks like the same structure: "a noun + of + noun".
2. Governments and all other EFA partners must work together to ensure basic education of quality for all, regardless of gender, wealth, location, language or ethnic origin.
3. Stanford scholars find varying quality of education in BRICs
Q) I'm not sure if these my question works without the context of these three sentences. What I want to know is the reason why "the" is added in #1 and not in #2 which looks like the same structure: "a noun + of + noun".
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In (1), "quality" is an aspect or property of "education", and thus qualified it becomes "definite enough" to require the definite article. g. "the importance of study", "the failure of policy".
- In (1), "quality" is an aspect or property of "education", and thus qualified it becomes "definite enough" to require the definite article.
- g.
- "the importance of study", "the failure of policy".
- (2) may look to be the same "noun1 of noun2" pattern, but actually it's rather different.
- In this case "of quality" is like an adjective modifying "education".
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In (1), "quality" is an aspect or property of "education", and thus qualified it becomes "definite enough" to require the definite article. This is the norm in such "noun1 of noun2" phrases, e.g. "the importance of study", "the failure of policy".
(2) may look to be the same "noun1 of noun2" pattern, but actually it's rather different. In this case "of quality" is like an adjective modify
(2) may look to be the same "noun1 of noun2" pattern, but actually it's rather different. In this case "of quality" is like an adjective modify
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GPY I do not have a good answer to that at the moment.It may be something to do with the interaction with the verb "find". If you say "find the ..." it sounds as if the thing found was known or expected to be there, or had been lost or mislaid, or something like that. When you find something you previously didn't know about, it's usually "find a ...".
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