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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Why "the" here in front of a game name?

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01i00It is cool and excitng as00 the Playstation 300.02i0-
  

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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Hi,12br
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0 Why? L. 01i00Is that because all names of games 01u00can be treated02u00 as proper names? 02i00 0-
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0 I beg to differ, it must have the 'the' there. 02br
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01i00"It is cool and excitng as01font00 the Playstation 302font00." is correct.02br
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00It is quite hard to explain but generally anything that can accept 'a' or 'an' as the article can also acce
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01cite10Xess12cite10I beg to differ, it must have the 'the' there. 12br
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11i10"It is cool and excitng as11font10 the Playstation 312font10." is correct.12br
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0 Thank you. Mabe this is the time for a Guru intervention? 0-
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0 Perhaps we need more opinions here. And yes I forgot the 'as' before the 'cool'. Failed to notice it.02br
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00 I put out those bought examples to show that I think it's in the same class as things like PCs, Macs, furniture and whatnot. If we expand on the sentence we can get a situation like this.02br
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00 "I bought a Sony Playstation and a MS
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01cite10Xess12cite10Perhaps we need more opinions here. And yes I forgot the 'as' before the 'cool'. Failed to notice it.12br
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10 I put out those bought examples to show that I think it's in the same class as things like PCs, Macs, furniture and whatnot. If we expand on the sentence we can get a situation like
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