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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

making imperatives and one other

Hi,

1. I was looking at an online grammar lesson and in it, there was a lesson on making imperatives.

A normal instruction would be phrased like this:

You need to take off the paper sleeve that the product was bought in.

And, in the imperative, why is it without the article?

Remove (a????) paper sleeve.

2. Is this sentence correct without an article before the word "novelty"?

I had admiration mostly because of (a????) novelty factor.
  

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Hi Believer, Normally, the imperative would still have the article, but if they are being written in "bullet" format, similar to headlines and other similar situations, the articles may be omitted. "the novelty factor" would be correct.

— BarbaraPA

  • Hi Believer, Normally, the imperative would still have the article, but if they are being written in "bullet" format, similar to headlines and other similar situations, the articles may be omitted.
  • "the novelty factor" would be correct.
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Hi Believer,

Normally, the imperative would still have the article, but if they are being written in "bullet" format, similar to headlines and other similar situations, the articles may be omitted.

"the novelty factor" would be correct.
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