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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

no articles?


This year’s Penn Slavic Symposium is a public event bringing together leading policy scholars on (the) Russian foreign policy for a day-long discussion of key issues and challenges.
Why did the author omitted the definite article here? And here too:

War's end did not immediately bring about any great innovations in (the) British and American intelligence.
Could someone explain this to me?
  

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Policy used here is a non-count noun. It is not talking about one policy, but policy in general. Intelligence is the concept of what espionage organizations do.

— AlpheccaStars

  • Policy used here is a non-count noun.
  • It is not talking about one policy, but policy in general.
  • Intelligence is the concept of what espionage organizations do.
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Policy used here is a non-count noun. It is not talking about one policy, but policy in general.
Intelligence is the concept of what espionage organizations do. They gather intelligence (applicable information.)
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But it's specified by the the word "Russian" and the other one is specified by the words "British" and "American".
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Russian policy is uncountable.
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Why are there so many posts lately that explain the presence or absence of "the" in terms of countable and uncountable nouns?

Sugar is sweet. I've already put the sugar on the table.

CJ
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AnonymousWhy did the author omit ted the definite article here?
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