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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

The Grenadier Guards

Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War.

I saw the above in my son's reading book "The HODGEHEG".

I know that the basics about the definite articles but unable to understand their use before "Grenadier Guards" and "Second World War".

Why do we treat both these nouns as proper nouns?

  

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Jigneshbharati Why do we treat both these nouns as proper nouns? Because they are official names given to 1) a military unit and 2) a war. org/wiki/Grenadier_Guards Sometimes wars are given different names because of the political position of the people who are naming them.

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  • Jigneshbharati Why do we treat both these nouns as proper nouns?
  • Because they are official names given to 1) a military unit and 2) a war.
  • org/wiki/Grenadier_Guards Sometimes wars are given different names because of the political position of the people who are naming them.
  • The American Civil War (1860-1865) has been known by different names.
  • org/wiki/Names_of_the_American_Civil_War Significant historical events are also given proper names.
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JigneshbharatiWhy do we treat both these nouns as proper nouns?

Because they are official names given to 1) a military unit and 2) a war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenadier_Guards


Sometimes wars are given different names because of the political

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JigneshbharatiWhy do we treat both these nouns as proper nouns?

I think that what you're noticing is that in fact we do not treat them as proper nouns. Proper nouns don't take "the". If we were treating these nouns as proper nouns, we would not put "the" in front of them.

Some writers say that these constructions, where a capitalized word or

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