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Jack112 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Determiner

1. The two utilities are (determiner) device manager and (determiner) component service. (Is this sentence correct without determiners? I think it is incorrect because those nouns are countable ?)

2. Device manager and component service are the two utilities. (If this is correct without determiners, why is #1 incorrect?)

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I'd use a/the in both sentences, Jack, because they are two (yes, countable) types of utilities. If they are in fact the names of the utilities, however, then they should be capitalized instead: Device Manager and Component Service . On the other hand, there could be usage peculiar to computerspeak, which is not, as we all know, necessarily grammatically normal.

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  • I'd use a/the in both sentences, Jack, because they are two (yes, countable) types of utilities.
  • If they are in fact the names of the utilities, however, then they should be capitalized instead: Device Manager and Component Service .
  • On the other hand, there could be usage peculiar to computerspeak, which is not, as we all know, necessarily grammatically normal.
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I'd use a/the in both sentences, Jack, because they are two (yes, countable) types of utilities. If they are in fact the names of the utilities, however, then they should be capitalized instead: Device Manager and Component Service.

On the other hand, there could be usage peculiar to computerspeak, which is not, as we all know, necessarily grammatically norm
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