Timeline for Boris Group or 'the' Boris Group? Is article omission an error?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:55 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 20, 2014 at 2:40 | vote | accept | CowperKettle | ||
| Sep 19, 2014 at 14:21 | answer | added | choster | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 14:18 | answer | added | user91626 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 11:43 | comment | added | CowperKettle | I've noticed that too, and the text is indeed not a native speaker's creation. (0: It's just that the "X Group" combination bothered me more. And maybe the indefinite article before "preferred research supplier". | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 11:40 | comment | added | oerkelens | I agree with @DanBron, but I also note that the text lacks another article in "in business & consumer sector". It may not have been written by a native speaker — I would assume (most) native speakers would include a handful of extra articles. Looking on the site you link to, I think most native speakers would bring a whole extra bag of articles :) | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 11:02 | history | edited | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2014 at 10:56 | comment | added | Dan Bron | It's definitely not a grammatical mistake, but it breaks a convention, and so the passage is a bit jarring. For a moment, anyway; by the time I got to the last sentence, I was used to it, and stopped noticing. That said, the lack of an article will draw attention to itself, and will surely cause someone on the internet to perceive it as "wrong", even if it isn't (and that someone might be a prospective client of yours), so unless using straight "Boris Group" is important to you, you might consider bowing to convention. | |
| Sep 19, 2014 at 10:47 | history | asked | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |