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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Do you need "the" in the following cases?
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00 I want your expert opinion on this. The question that I have is that will you put the "the" when they are followed by 01 u 00 some proper names with non-proper nouns and are subected to the usual rules of specificity and prior precedence 02 u 00 ? Or having a proper entity like CJI is specific enough naturally and thus, making the need for the "the" 01 b 00 unnecessary 02 b 00 ? 02 br
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00 Ex. 02 br
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01 i 00 Please follow (the) 01 u 00 CJI reporting rules. 02 u 00 02 i 02 br
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01 i 00 CJI -- a proper name 02 i 02 br
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01 i 00 rules -- a non-proper noun 02 i 0-
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00 I want your expert opinion on this. The question that I have is that will you put the "the" when they are followed by 01 u 00 some proper names with non-proper nouns and are subected to the usual rules of specificity and prior precedence 02 u 00 ? Or having a proper entity like CJI is specific enough naturally and thus, making the need for the "the" 01 b 00 unnecessary 02 b 00 ? 02 br
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00 Ex. 02 br
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01 i 00 Please follow (the) 01 u 00 CJI reporting rules. 02 u 00 02 i 02 br
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01 i 00 CJI -- a proper name 02 i 02 br
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01 i 00 rules -- a non-proper noun 02 i 0-
Top answer
0 When a proper noun is used as an adjective to modify a common noun, the prper noun has no effect on the definiteness of the common noun. That is, a common noun is a common noun whether it is modified by a proper noun or not, and you can or cannot put THE according to the grammar rules for addition of THE to a common noun. 02 br 02 br 00 Please look at the sentence below.
- 0 When a proper noun is used as an adjective to modify a common noun, the prper noun has no effect on the definiteness of the common noun.
- That is, a common noun is a common noun whether it is modified by a proper noun or not, and you can or cannot put THE according to the grammar rules for addition of THE to a common noun.
- 02 br 02 br 00 Please look at the sentence below.
- Here the first "IBM computers" is not modified by THE because it is mentioned for the first time, but the second and third "IBM computers" are modified by THE, because these IBM computers are those mentioned previously.
- 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 The author has observed the validity of this assertion at two different universities.
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0 When a proper noun is used as an adjective to modify a common noun, the prper noun has no effect on the definiteness of the common noun. That is, a common noun is a common noun whether it is modified by a proper noun or not, and you can or cannot put THE according to the grammar rules for addition of THE to a common noun. 02 br
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00 Please look at the sentence below. Here
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00 Please look at the sentence below. Here
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