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OJTabby Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Stay

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/25/us/length-of-average-hospital-stay-drops-22.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
"The reimbursement policies call for paying hospitals based on predetermined amounts a for 475 categories of related illnesses and not the LENGTH OF STAY."

According to this dictionary, "stay" is countable. So is "the" missing in "length of stay"?
  

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OJTabby So is "the" missing in "length of stay"? No. If you put "the" in, it refers to a particular stay.

— AlpheccaStars

  • OJTabby So is "the" missing in "length of stay"?
  • No.
  • If you put "the" in, it refers to a particular stay.
  • The way it is written, it refers to hospital stays in a general sense.
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OJTabby So is "the" missing in "length of stay"?
No. If you put "the" in, it refers to a particular stay.
The way it is written, it refers to hospital stays in a general sense.
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Thank you AlpheccaStars.

So, that means I could also write:

"My employer will pay for hotel stay."

without using "a" or "the"?
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I would use the plural:

"My employer will pay for hotel stays."
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