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MeggPhaggSioux Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Sea Level Rise
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_19048354
"It requires cities or developers to do a cost-benefit analysis of building in low-lying areas and to submit a plan to cope with sea level rise and other climate change eventualities. "
"Rise", according to many dictionaries, is a countable increase in something. So should not there be some article (a, the) before "sea level rise"?
"It requires cities or developers to do a cost-benefit analysis of building in low-lying areas and to submit a plan to cope with sea level rise and other climate change eventualities. "
"Rise", according to many dictionaries, is a countable increase in something. So should not there be some article (a, the) before "sea level rise"?
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rise is used as a generalized abstraction here, and abstract nouns don't take articles. Besides, the reference is not to any particular case of a rise in sea level such as the sea level rise in Greenland or the sea level rise in South Africa. The reference is to a general natural phenomenon like thunder or gravity.
- rise is used as a generalized abstraction here, and abstract nouns don't take articles.
- Besides, the reference is not to any particular case of a rise in sea level such as the sea level rise in Greenland or the sea level rise in South Africa.
- The reference is to a general natural phenomenon like thunder or gravity.
- CJ
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rise is used as a generalized abstraction here, and abstract nouns don't take articles. Besides, the reference is not to any particular case of a rise in sea level such as the sea level rise in Greenland or the sea level rise in South Africa. The reference is to a general natural phenomenon like thunder or gravity.
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