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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Put the article or not here?
Hi.
1. Let us pretend that someone has been asked to put names to some pictures. On a large sheet of paper, he/she is expected to put some pictures, and under each picture, he is asked to put names for those pictures. Should that person include English articles to the names that normally have (as I think they are) the definite article "the" in front of them, like the made-up names "John Doe Cultural Center" and "John Doe Science Festival." (For asking questions here, let us pretend there are names like "John Doe Cultural Center" and "John Doe Science Festival." I am not mistaken, I think we normally say or write "He has been to the John Doe Cultural Center" and "He has been to the John Doe Science Festival."
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(Let us pretend there is a name for a cultural center named "John Doe Cultural Center.")
Should the name below the picture be "John Doe Cultural Center" or "the John Doe Cultural Center"?
I think we normally we put the definite article "the" in front of the name of a certain cultural center it is in a sentence.
2. Would you put the indefinite article "an" or the definite article "the" in the places indicated?
Each has four images: (an/the?) actual image, (an/the?) imagined image, ...
1. Let us pretend that someone has been asked to put names to some pictures. On a large sheet of paper, he/she is expected to put some pictures, and under each picture, he is asked to put names for those pictures. Should that person include English articles to the names that normally have (as I think they are) the definite article "the" in front of them, like the made-up names "John Doe Cultural Center" and "John Doe Science Festival." (For asking questions here, let us pretend there are names like "John Doe Cultural Center" and "John Doe Science Festival." I am not mistaken, I think we normally say or write "He has been to the John Doe Cultural Center" and "He has been to the John Doe Science Festival."
eg,
(Let us pretend there is a name for a cultural center named "John Doe Cultural Center.")
Should the name below the picture be "John Doe Cultural Center" or "the John Doe Cultural Center"?
I think we normally we put the definite article "the" in front of the name of a certain cultural center it is in a sentence.
2. Would you put the indefinite article "an" or the definite article "the" in the places indicated?
Each has four images: (an/the?) actual image, (an/the?) imagined image, ...
Top answer
If I understand you correctly, the scenario you referred to is something like a family reunion where relatives have not seen each other for years. So this person is putting the pictures up on a large corkboard or something with notations which may be something like: Jane and me at Disneyland summer, 2008 , or vacationing Dec, 2006 -at [the] white House . In this context, with or without [The], is not a big deal.
- If I understand you correctly, the scenario you referred to is something like a family reunion where relatives have not seen each other for years.
- So this person is putting the pictures up on a large corkboard or something with notations which may be something like: Jane and me at Disneyland summer, 2008 , or vacationing Dec, 2006 -at [the] white House .
- In this context, with or without [The], is not a big deal.
- But in property context, [The White House] is correct.
- On a side note, article rules are quite elusive for proper names.
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If I understand you correctly, the scenario you referred to is something like a family reunion where relatives have not seen each other for years. So this person is putting the pictures up on a large corkboard or something with notations which may be something like: Jane and me at Disneyland summer, 2008, or vacationing Dec, 2006 -at [the] white House. In this context, with or witho
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