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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

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Hi,
Please tell me if the article 'the' is needed. I think the word 'system' is a contable noun. If I have what looks to be a foreign word,do I need to follow the normal grammar conventions? Should I italicize or put the word in a pair of quotation marks?

Ondol is a Korean heating system and I would like to use (the??) Ondol on the floor in my room.
  

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Countability has nothing to do with the use of the definite article, only the indefinite article. Ondol is a proper noun and no article is needed with it in your example. You could of course avoid repetition and say: ...

— Cool Breeze

  • Countability has nothing to do with the use of the definite article, only the indefinite article.
  • Ondol is a proper noun and no article is needed with it in your example.
  • You could of course avoid repetition and say: ...
  • I would like to use it ...
  • CB
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Countability has nothing to do with the use of the definite article, only the indefinite article. Ondol is a proper noun and no article is needed with it in your example. You could of course avoid repetition and say: ... I would like to use it...
CB
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Thank you.

How is Ondol different from these proper nouns (I think they are) that I see having definite articles?

the Pacific Ocean

I think Mr. M said the definite article is needed for this name of program that is in quotes:

The 'Cow Power Program'

Is this program a proper name?

And I see a lot names of government agenc
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Some proper nouns or names require the, some don't. In the phrase the Cow Power program all the words are common nouns and the article is associated with the last word, "program," which is not a proper noun, so the article must be used as there is only one such program.
The article is used largely for the same reas
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Ondol is a single word and a proper noun.
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Hi Annon, there are lot of misspellings in your post.
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Thank you, Cool Breeze and Neeraj Jain.

I think I wrote this sentence to ask a question on whether there is a need to attach an definite article and I think Mr. M said there is a need.
What I am confused about is putting a pair of quotation marks around what looks to be a proper name. What is the possible difference?

The 'Cow Power Program' was started in Vermont.
The C
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You can use the quotes to introduce what is a new term to people.
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