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Believer Posted 19 years ago
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0 I don't like to ask more questions on English articles if I could and I think one other person said something to the effect that he/she would like me to post questions other than those, but I have this desire to know and I hope you will excuse me. 02 br
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00 My question is this: I think Clive said the placement of the article 'the' for the names of airports is idiomatic and if a person who travels often wants to point to an airport with the name (which I made up) 'Believer's Airport' might call it "The Believer's Airport." 02 br
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00 OK, but I think I saw this from Paco's post that said something like that it is a rule in English the proper name for any airport doesn't take THE. 0-
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00 My question is this: I think Clive said the placement of the article 'the' for the names of airports is idiomatic and if a person who travels often wants to point to an airport with the name (which I made up) 'Believer's Airport' might call it "The Believer's Airport." 02 br
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00 OK, but I think I saw this from Paco's post that said something like that it is a rule in English the proper name for any airport doesn't take THE. 0-
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" 02 font 02 br 02 br 00 I forget the details of what we discussed, but let me briefly review my thought on this. 02 br 02 br 00 Many airports are named after a place, 00 eg the city of XYZ might have an airport called 'XYZ Airport'. 02 br 02 br 00 If I live in XYZ, I'd probably just say 'I saw Tom at the airport'.
- " 02 font 02 br 02 br 00 I forget the details of what we discussed, but let me briefly review my thought on this.
- 02 br 02 br 00 Many airports are named after a place, 00 eg the city of XYZ might have an airport called 'XYZ Airport'.
- 02 br 02 br 00 If I live in XYZ, I'd probably just say 'I saw Tom at the airport'.
- 02 br 02 br 00 If I don't live in XYZ but I travel a lot via different airports, I might say 'I saw Tom at the XYZ airport', because in my mind I am trying to distinguish it from the airport in the city of ABC.
- I might equally say 'I saw Tom at the airport in XYZ'.
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0 Hi, 02 br
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01 font 00 My question is this: I think Clive said the placement of the article 'the' for the names of airports is idiomatic and if a person who travels often wants to point to an airport with the name (which I made up) 'Believer's Airport' might call it "The Believer's Airport." 02 font 02 br
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01 font 00 My question is this: I think Clive said the placement of the article 'the' for the names of airports is idiomatic and if a person who travels often wants to point to an airport with the name (which I made up) 'Believer's Airport' might call it "The Believer's Airport." 02 font 02 br
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