Is 'the' needed in this title?
Quadrupedalism de Novo: An Examination of the Intractability of (the) Morphological Convergence of Knuckle-Walking in Late Miocene Hominidae
Is (the) needed in order to make the title grammatical or is it still correct without it?
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It's more a matter of sense than grammar. I don't pretend to understand the title, but with "the", morphological convergence of knuckle-walking did occur in late Miocene Hominidae, and you intend to examine the intractability of that morphological convergence. Without "the", that morphological convergence may or may not have occurred.
- It's more a matter of sense than grammar.
- I don't pretend to understand the title, but with "the", morphological convergence of knuckle-walking did occur in late Miocene Hominidae, and you intend to examine the intractability of that morphological convergence.
- Without "the", that morphological convergence may or may not have occurred.
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It's more a matter of sense than grammar. I don't pretend to understand the title, but with "the", morphological convergence of knuckle-walking did occur in late Miocene Hominidae, and you intend to examine the intractability of that morphological convergence. Without "the", that morphological convergence may or may not have occurred.
0anonymousIs(the)"the" needed
In my opinion it is needed. Yes. It's because of the of-phrase that follows.
I checked this on fraze.it, using "convergence of" as the search string. Of the first fifty examples only three lacked a determiner (a, the, this, ...) before "convergence",
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