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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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What's the difference between "on the wall" and "on wall" ?

English is not my native language, so I'm not so good in grammar.
I hear a lot of " check this on facebook" , "this is on wall street". In this examples why the word "the" is missing?
Is it grammatically correct to say : "Check this article onwall.com" for example ?
  

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Anonymous I hear a lot of "check this on F acebook", "this is on W all S treet". In th ese examples why is the word "the" is missing? I assume you want to put "the" before "Facebook" and "Wall Street".

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous I hear a lot of "check this on F acebook", "this is on W all S treet".
  • In th ese examples why is the word "the" is missing?
  • I assume you want to put "the" before "Facebook" and "Wall Street".
  • We don't use articles with proper nouns.
  • We capitalize proper nouns, so it's easy to find them.
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AnonymousI hear a lot of "check this on Facebook", "this is on Wall Street". In these examples why is the word "the" is missing?
I assume you want to
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Hi,

English is not my native language, so I'm not so good in grammar.
I hear a lot of " check this on facebook" , "this is on wall street". In this examples why the word "the" is missing?
Is it grammatically correct to say : "Check this article onwall.com" for example ?

Facebook, Wall Street and web site names are all treated as proper noun
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The question in your heading brings up a very different point.

What's the difference between "on the wall" and "on wall"?

You would need a special context to make "on wall" correct.
The correct version is "on the wall" or "on a wall".

Note that a wall is something quite different from a street that is named "Wall Street".

CJ
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