New answers tagged definite-article
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Check out this link in regard to using the for countries from the BBC website.
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Understanding here depends less on the meanings of church than on the meanings of go.
There are numerous uses of go. Most commonly it refers to moving or traveling somewhere. In this sense, and when by church we mean a building used for Christian worship, we use the article with church according to the usual rules:
I'm sure I lost my camera in ...
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I am no expert, but I am a native English speaker (American). I would interpret "I went to church" to mean "I attended a church service". "I went to the/a church" would imply I visited a building.
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This is by no means an answer from an English language expert, but one from someone with an idea. We have definite and indefinite articles. In this case, we are dropping both of them. We don't use "the" nor do we use "a". We are implying an even closer relationship than definite. We are implying a personal relationship: ours. Our church. Our school. My work. ...
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“Near St. John's church” vs. “near the St. John's church” vs. “near the St. John church” [duplicate]
Your first answer is correct.
In my area we have a hotel near St. Andrew's Church. It is also near the Fulwell Methodist Church.
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I visited the Freeman Hospital. I didn't find it as nice as St. Cuthbert's Hospital.
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I did have a nice day out at St. Peter's Cathedral but the weather wasn't as nice as when I visited Durham Cathedral.
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The two topics that I have found more difficult than others are THE USES OF THE and THE USES OF TENSES.
Once, so many years ago, I tested people including Professors of English whom I know personally with the aim of knowing whether they are good at using THE correctly. Unfortunately, none of them passed the test.
The English that we, Indians, use is ...
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Swan in Practical English Usage (p138) states:
The cannot be dropped when a superlative in predicative position is
used with a defining expression.
He gives the example: She was the quickest of all the staff.
In the OP's example, "in her family" can be regarded as a defining expression, so the definite article is needed: She gets up the latest in ...
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Neither sentence is a natural English sentence. Teachers like to make multiple choice questions and create artificial sentences, and there is a danger that they are not actually things any one would ever say, but really it is a matter of the context. Any technically grammatical sentence, as both of these are, could be valid in an appropriate context.
If ...
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Although this is somewhat a matter of opinion (i.e., one can choose between S2 and S3, but S1 is out of the question for me), I will say that S#2 is the better choice. All three sentences are understandable, but S1 is ungrammatical, in my opinion, because the definite article is required for the phrase the flow of water. At best, S1 is exceedingly poor ...
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