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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

I'm wondering

I work at a shop in the UK and they have put up loads of signs reading:

"DO NOT EAT STOCK"

It seems wrong to me but i'm not the greatest person when it comes to real english so help me out!

Should it not read: "DO NOT EAT THE STOCK" ?

Thanks for your help Emotion: big smile
  

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Hi, Signs are often abbreviated, eg by omitting articles. I hope you work in a doughnut shop and not a shoe shop. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, Signs are often abbreviated, eg by omitting articles.
  • I hope you work in a doughnut shop and not a shoe shop.
  • Clive
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Hi,
Signs are often abbreviated, eg by omitting articles.

I hope you work in a doughnut shop and not a shoe shop.

Clive
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Yeah... its not a shoe shop. Not a doughnut shop either, although i wish it was sometimes.

so it should have the word "the" in it then ?

I guess it was to shorten it then but it doesn't look good does it. The same supermarkets have been found out with stupid English mistakes before on signs.

Thanks for your help
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