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Singing valley Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

How would you say?

Thanks to TV... or Thanks to the TV...?

  

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Hi I'd go for the first: - It's thanks to TV that we started to know more about the world I wouldn't put the 'the' in Dave

— Dave_anon

  • Hi I'd go for the first: - It's thanks to TV that we started to know more about the world I wouldn't put the 'the' in Dave
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Hi

I'd go for the first:

- It's thanks to TV that we started to know more about the world

I wouldn't put the 'the' in

Dave

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singing valleyThanks to the TV...?

The one in my family room?

singing valleyThanks to TV

TV with no article refers to the invention, the patents, the networks, the sets, the programs, and everything generally associated with the industry.

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singing valleyThanks to TV...

... I learned all about asteroid that made the dinosaurs extinct.

singing valleyThanks to the TV...

... I have something that blocks out the glaring sunlight during the afternoon.

It's much harder to contextualize the second one, where 'the TV' is in effect a piece of furn

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