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Stenka25 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Redundancy Fallacy? : the these countries
The sentence below is from a book, Bad Samaritans.
In the sentence, the underlined "the these" seems awkward to me due to redundancy.
So I checked up on Google Books which brought up about 7,500 site with "the these."
Can you help me?
The real IMF, the International Monetary Fund, may not send secret agents to blow up buildings or assassinate underirables, but it is much feared by developing countries all the same, for it plays the role of gatekeeper vis-a-vis the these countries, controlling their access to international finance.
In the sentence, the underlined "the these" seems awkward to me due to redundancy.
So I checked up on Google Books which brought up about 7,500 site with "the these."
Can you help me?
The real IMF, the International Monetary Fund, may not send secret agents to blow up buildings or assassinate underirables, but it is much feared by developing countries all the same, for it plays the role of gatekeeper vis-a-vis the these countries, controlling their access to international finance.
Top answer
'the these' has all the marks of a typographical mistake. It should be just 'these'. You'll get almost 6 million hits if you search all of Google, but a lot of them are things like Does anyone have a copy of the "These Guys" video?
- 'the these' has all the marks of a typographical mistake.
- It should be just 'these'.
- You'll get almost 6 million hits if you search all of Google, but a lot of them are things like Does anyone have a copy of the "These Guys" video?
- CJ
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'the these' has all the marks of a typographical mistake. It should be just 'these'.
You'll get almost 6 million hits if you search all of Google, but a lot of them are things like
Does anyone have a copy of the "These Guys" video?
CJ
You'll get almost 6 million hits if you search all of Google, but a lot of them are things like
Does anyone have a copy of the "These Guys" video?
CJ
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