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OttoJ Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
College
Exeter College's website has a sentence:
-We should be delighted to show you around College and discuss your detailed requirements with you.
What is the reason for not using THE before COLLEGE? Is THE optional?
-We should be delighted to show you around College and discuss your detailed requirements with you.
What is the reason for not using THE before COLLEGE? Is THE optional?
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I would have done this, but who am I to argue with the college's own website? We should be delighted to show you around the college and discuss your requirements in detail with you.
- I would have done this, but who am I to argue with the college's own website?
- We should be delighted to show you around the college and discuss your requirements in detail with you.
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I would have done this, but who am I to argue with the college's own website?
We should be delighted to show you around the college and discuss your requirements in detail with you.
We should be delighted to show you around the college and discuss your requirements in detail with you.
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If that's Exeter College, Oxford, then the absence of the definite article is normal in BrE for colleges when are located on a single site.
I'll see you in college.
Let's discuss it when we get back to college.
The writer of the original sentence has used a capital C because they are the word as one form of the name of the institution.
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I'll see you in college.
Let's discuss it when we get back to college.
The writer of the original sentence has used a capital C because they are the word as one form of the name of the institution.
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