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HUBLOT Posted 15 years ago
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With "the / a" naked eye
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Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to look at with the naked eye. Saturday's lunar eclipse is the second and last of 2011. The first was in June.
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"Someone would have had to run out and look at it with a naked eye, but didn't," said Gehrels, chief of NASA's astroparticles physics lab at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Would with the naked eye and with a naked eye be interchangeable?
Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to look at with the naked eye. Saturday's lunar eclipse is the second and last of 2011. The first was in June.
http://tinyurl.com/d2hxabr
"Someone would have had to run out and look at it with a naked eye, but didn't," said Gehrels, chief of NASA's astroparticles physics lab at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Would with the naked eye and with a naked eye be interchangeable?
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Hi, The naked eye (also: with the naked eye ) is an idiomatic expression that makes a reference to the human eye that is unaided by any optics, such as a microscope, telescope, binoculars, etc. For example: She couldn't see this bright star with the naked eye. She could see it only with the assistance of a telescope.
- Hi, The naked eye (also: with the naked eye ) is an idiomatic expression that makes a reference to the human eye that is unaided by any optics, such as a microscope, telescope, binoculars, etc.
- For example: She couldn't see this bright star with the naked eye.
- She could see it only with the assistance of a telescope.
- Since it is already idiomatic with the definite article, I wouldn't try to change it.
- Although it makes sense with the indefinite article as well, most people use idiomatic expressions in their original forms, and so do I.
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Hi,
The naked eye (also: with the naked eye) is an idiomatic expression that makes a reference to the
human eye that is unaided by any optics, such as a microscope, telescope, binoculars, etc.
For example:
She couldn't see this bright star with the naked eye. She could see it only with the assistance of a telescope.
Since it is already idi
The naked eye (also: with the naked eye) is an idiomatic expression that makes a reference to the
human eye that is unaided by any optics, such as a microscope, telescope, binoculars, etc.
For example:
She couldn't see this bright star with the naked eye. She could see it only with the assistance of a telescope.
Since it is already idi
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