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Ruttonjee Posted 19 years ago
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00 I read a line in a Longman textbook which says, 'You are Simon Owen, the chairman of the Environmental Protection Society'. Why did the textbook use a definite article 'the' with chairman? There should be only one chairman in the society. Indeed it is not necessary to add 'the' before 'chairman'. This is not the first time I came across this. What do you think? 02 br
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00 I read a line in a Longman textbook which says, 'You are Simon Owen, the chairman of the Environmental Protection Society'. Why did the textbook use a definite article 'the' with chairman? There should be only one chairman in the society. Indeed it is not necessary to add 'the' before 'chairman'. This is not the first time I came across this. What do you think? 02 br
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0 you need the article, because there is only one chairman of that society. 0-
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0 01 i 00 chairman 02 i 00 is a role, so 01 i 00 the 02 i 00 is not needed. It's optional. 02 br
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01 i 00 Bush is (the) president of the U.S. 02 i 02 br
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01 i 00 Bush is (the) president of the U.S. 02 i 02 br
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