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Somethingsimple Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

why 'money supply' is normally used with 'the'

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00I thought it is a general abstract concept, without any sense of definiteveness. Is there a general rule when a abstract general noun becomes definite without any 01u01i00particular 02i02u00reason? 02br
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0 I don't know if there's a general rule, but in this specific case 01i 00the money supply02i 00 refers to the money supply of some particular country or to the international money supply. The writer assumes that the context gives enough information so that the reader will know exactly which money supply is being referred to. 02br 02br 00 CJ0-

— CalifJim

  • 0 I don't know if there's a general rule, but in this specific case 01i 00the money supply02i 00 refers to the money supply of some particular country or to the international money supply.
  • The writer assumes that the context gives enough information so that the reader will know exactly which money supply is being referred to.
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0 I don't know if there's a general rule, but in this specific case 01i00the money supply02i00 refers to the money supply of some particular country or to the international money supply. The writer assumes that the context gives enough information so that the reader will know exactly which money supply is being referred to. Remember: "the" is used to forestall the
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01cite10Somethingsimple12cite10I thought it is a general abstract concept, without any sense of definiteveness. Is there a general rule when a abstract general noun becomes definite without any 11u11i10particular 12i12u10reason?12blockquote
10Googlily "money supply" without THE hi
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01cite10Paco200412cite10Googlily "money supply" without THE hits 1,470,000 pages whereas "the money supply" with THE hits 1,040,000 pages.12br
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10Oh well, some time ago I decided to use neither google, nor such arguably reliable sources of the grammatically correct English as bbc.co.uk. The reason
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0 00Hello 02br
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00You may be right that the 00 00number of the uses of a phrase on the whole Google often does not reflect the right usage of the phrase. I too choose "NY Times.com" and "Gutenberg.org" or "AC.UK" when I doubt the result of a survey over the whole Google. 02br
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00As to the phrase "money supply" (without THE) and "the mon
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0paco,02br
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00what's ac.uk? I don't seem to get there when typing it as a url. My IE is not finding it on the net. 0-
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10I don't know if there's a general rule, but in this specific case 11i10the money supply12i10 refers to the money supply of some particular country or to the international money supply. The writer assumes that the context gives enough information so that the reader will know exactly which mo
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01cite10Somethingsimple12cite10 what's ac.uk? I don't seem to get there when typing it as a url. My IE is not finding it on the net. 12blockquote
10"ac.uk" is the sign of one of UK's domains for academic use.02br
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