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Jigneshbharati Posted 10 years ago
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The food, the travel, the weather

Home advantage can be manifest in many ways; the weather, the food, the travel, but in cricket, it is most apparent in the surfaces presented to you to play on.
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Why we need "the" before "weather,food,travel"?
  

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"the" is optional, but the punctuation is wrong. This is one way of writing it correctly: Home advantage can manifest itself in many ways – (the) weather, (the) food, (the) travel – but in cricket, it is most apparent in the surfaces presented to you to play on.

  • "the" is optional, but the punctuation is wrong.
  • This is one way of writing it correctly: Home advantage can manifest itself in many ways – (the) weather, (the) food, (the) travel – but in cricket, it is most apparent in the surfaces presented to you to play on.
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"the" is optional, but the punctuation is wrong. This is one way of writing it correctly:

Home advantage can manifest itself in many ways – (the) weather, (the) food, (the) travel – but in cricket, it is most apparent in the surfaces presented to you to play on.

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