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Believer Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

why articles are necessary?

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00Teo wrote this sentence and asked whether an or the or no article is needed and GG seems to have said that an or the is definitely needed and I think two other people concurred with her response and one person thought no article is needed.02br
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00A fisherman can similarly locate schools of fishes by using a device called ___ echo-sounder.02br
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00Why articles are need there?02br
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00I think it is needed because the sentence is definitional in nature. An/the echo-sounder is a device a fisherman can use to similarly locate schools of fishes. Am I right?0-
  

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"02br 02br 00 See this BBC search: 02br 02br 05002br 02br 00 where you would see that "no article" is used only very rarely. uk+%22a+device+called%22&btnG=Search

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0 Because this is the current usage after pointing to something with "a device 01b00called02b00."02br
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