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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

'the' used correctly?

Hi.
Is 'the' used correctly in:
The cultural sign of staff is an element that had a pronounced presence and a symbolic use in the Qajar paintings.
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Thanks in advance
  

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If you are talking about a specific set of Qajar paintings that has previously been mentioned or is understood from general context then "the Qajar paintings" is correct. If you are talking about Qajar paintings in general then probably you should delete the article. g.

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  • If you are talking about a specific set of Qajar paintings that has previously been mentioned or is understood from general context then "the Qajar paintings" is correct.
  • If you are talking about Qajar paintings in general then probably you should delete the article.
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  • ), then it may still be appropriate to use "the" even if you mean all of them.
  • It should be "The cultural sign of the staff".
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If you are talking about a specific set of Qajar paintings that has previously been mentioned or is understood from general context then "the Qajar paintings" is correct. If you are talking about Qajar paintings in general then probably you should delete the article. However, if all known Qajar paintings are closely associated (e.g. were discovered together, are kept in the same museum, are very o
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With regards to the three-category system of Peirce, icon, index, and symbol, and its different aspects, in Qajar paintings the staff has an identity rooted in the Qajar culture and society.

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and this one:
Thus, by the knowledge of semiotics, we can explore a new field of analyzing the artistic arts, not only in the Qajar artistic period, but also in other periods like the Safavid period, the Timurid period, and so on.
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soheil1With regards to the three-category system of Peirce, icon, index, and symbol, and its different aspects, in Qajar paintings the staff has an identity rooted in the Qajar culture and society.
"With regard to..."

The case of "the Qajar culture and society" is debatable, but probably it's preferable to omit "the".

"in Qajar paintin
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soheil1Thus, by the knowledge of semiotics, we can explore a new field of analyzing the artistic arts, not only in the Qajar artistic period, but also in other periods like the Safavid period, the Timurid period, and so on.
The articles are OK.

"artistic arts" sounds odd to me. All arts are artistic, aren't they? Do you mean "visual arts"?

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