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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
How to get rid of this itch
Hi,
Whenever I see a phrase that seems to be related somewhat directly?? (as I perceive it to be), I have this itch to put the definite article "the" eventhough later on, it ends up?? not needing it. Here the phrase "pretest information" seems to be contextually clear that it is being referred to "the pretest information" because as you read my self-made short article, it seems to be the case, but the right way to make a sentence is to not to put the article "the" there, can you explain, if you can based on what I have done and tried to have it done, why the is not necessary?
John renewed a score of 5 on last test and Sue received the same score. It is well-known fact that John is not a good student and it seems that he might have gotten the??? pretest information.
Whenever I see a phrase that seems to be related somewhat directly?? (as I perceive it to be), I have this itch to put the definite article "the" eventhough later on, it ends up?? not needing it. Here the phrase "pretest information" seems to be contextually clear that it is being referred to "the pretest information" because as you read my self-made short article, it seems to be the case, but the right way to make a sentence is to not to put the article "the" there, can you explain, if you can based on what I have done and tried to have it done, why the is not necessary?
John renewed a score of 5 on last test and Sue received the same score. It is well-known fact that John is not a good student and it seems that he might have gotten the??? pretest information.
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John received a score of 5, and Sue received the same score. , and it seems that he might have gotten (some) pretest information. It's not clear which information he got.
- John received a score of 5, and Sue received the same score.
- , and it seems that he might have gotten (some) pretest information.
- It's not clear which information he got.
- No particular information was mentioned previously in the context you set up, so the isn't going to work.
- some (an indefinite) can be used instead (but is not obligatory).
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John received a score of 5, and Sue received the same score. It is ..., and it seems that he might have gotten (some) pretest information.
It's not clear which information he got. No particular information was mentioned previously in the context you set up, so the isn't going to work. some (an indefinite) can be used instead (but is not obligatory).
It's not clear which information he got. No particular information was mentioned previously in the context you set up, so the isn't going to work. some (an indefinite) can be used instead (but is not obligatory).
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