The Earth or Earth?
Why there is an article " the" before our planet EARTH but not the others? Is there anything related to grammar?
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Abbas Rajabpour Why there is an article " the" before our planet EARTH but not the others? There isn't. The planet is Earth.
- Abbas Rajabpour Why there is an article " the" before our planet EARTH but not the others?
- There isn't.
- The planet is Earth.
- The world is the earth.
- I think the fact that it was the only place we knew of and that we didn't even know it was a planet is sufficient justification for the confusion.
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Abbas RajabpourWhy there is an article " the" before our planet EARTH but not the others?
There isn't. The planet is Earth. The world is the earth. I think the fact that it was the only place we knew of and that we didn't even know it was a planet is sufficient justification for the confusion.
0Abbas RajabpourWhy there is an article " the" before our planet EARTH but not the others?
What "others" are you writing about? Can you please post the sentence in question?
e.g. They are all treated equally in this sentence.
The solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
However, not
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