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Hanuman_2000 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Captain

Hello,

1. Mr. cook is captain of our team.

2. Mr.Cook is the captain of our team.

shall we use 'the' in this context?

Thanks.
  

Top answer

Either is acceptable and understandable. However, "captain" (without the "the") is a more informal way of speaking. But, always capitalize formal names (and space): so write this as Mr.

— Doctor D

  • Either is acceptable and understandable.
  • However, "captain" (without the "the") is a more informal way of speaking.
  • But, always capitalize formal names (and space): so write this as Mr.
  • Cook .
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Either is acceptable and understandable. However, "captain" (without the "the") is a more informal way of speaking. But, always capitalize formal names (and space): so write this as Mr. Cook.
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Doctor DMr. Cook.
The period is not required in BrE.
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Hi hanuman_2000,

I love discussions about articles! As others have mentioned here, both sentences are correct. The question is: what's the difference in meaning? Here are my thoughts.

We often use the definite article to identify a subset of a class.
This is the hotel that I stayed in.
Not the whole class of hotels, but a particular subset of hotels. Which h
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hanuman_2000Hello,1. Mr. cook is captain of our team.2. Mr.Cook is the captain of our team.shall we use 'the' in this context?Thanks.
'the' is optional. If you omit it, you focus on "captain" as a title.

CJ
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