[The/A] digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
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Please have a look at these sentences:
1) Digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
2) A digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
3) The digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
Which of them, and why, would you use when expressing a general statement like above?
The word 'system' can be either countable or uncountable so I think that all options are valid. Also, to describe things in general we sometimes use the zero article, sometimes the indefinite article and sometimes the definite article and I really don't know which one fits best here.
By the way, did I correctly use 'quality' with the zero article? Here I am pretty sure that yes, but just to double check.
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Reegis 1) Digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality. Not grammatical. Reegis 2) A digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
- Reegis 1) Digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
- Not grammatical.
- Reegis 2) A digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
- A digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality than the old analog systems.
- (comparison) Reegis 3) The digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
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Reegis1) Digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
Not grammatical.
Reegis2) A digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality.
A digital sound system in the cinema provides much better sound quality than the old analog systems.
(comparison)
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