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Teleostomi Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Definite article



1) Transoceanic cable used to be the most efficient way to send and recieve messages internationally.
I wonder why this sentence has no "the" before "transoceanic cable." Is that sentence natural?


2)"Tokyo District Court" or "the Tokyo District Court"? Which is correct?
  

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Hi, 1) Transoceanic cable used to be the most efficient way to send and receive messages internationally. " Is that sentence natural? Yes.

— Clive

  • Hi, 1) Transoceanic cable used to be the most efficient way to send and receive messages internationally.
  • " Is that sentence natural?
  • Yes.
  • The lack of an article makes it a very general, nonspecific reference.
  • 2)"Tokyo District Court" or "the Tokyo District Court"?
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Hi,


1) Transoceanic cable used to be the most efficient way to send and receive messages internationally. I wonder why this sentence has no "the" before "transoceanic cable." Is that sentence natural? Yes. The lack of an article makes it a very general, nonspecific reference.


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Muito obligado, Clive.
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Teleostomi


1) Transoceanic cable used to be the most efficient way to send and recieve messages internationally.
I wonder why this sentence has no "the" before "transoceanic cable." Is that sentence natural?


2)"Tokyo District Court" or "the Tokyo District Court"? Which is correct?

"Trans-oceanic cable" i
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Ti ringrazzio! Grazzie!
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Thank you.

Let us take it as you said that "Trans-oceanic cable" is a group name and "The trans-oceanic cable" is a part of the species/group "trans-oceanic cable." In that case, would you say you would NORMALLY find them capitalized when seeing them in print form? I would think that when you have names of business groups and/or parts of those business groups, you would have/treat them a
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No, no, no! Capitalization makes it a proper noun. A proper noun is a word that refers to (represents) only one entity in the universe. There is only one entity in the whole universe that Believer refers to! That's why we capitalize it. There are many trans-oceanic cables, not just the one that goes from the USA to Britain.

Clearer now?

CJ
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