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| Oct 26, 2018 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1055836731604459524 | ||
| Oct 26, 2018 at 13:00 | answer | added | linguisticturn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 26, 2018 at 11:27 | comment | added | linguisticturn | You may be interested in this question over on Literature StackExchage: What is the literary effect of dropping articles from titles? | |
| Feb 1, 2017 at 1:35 | vote | accept | Sam | ||
| Jan 30, 2017 at 11:24 | answer | added | lukejanicke | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 13:46 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The Collins Cobuild series includes a 100+ page monograph on the articles. And even that isn't comprehensive. / 'Dream for the Atlantis' (I assume 'the Atlantis' is a ship) is, as Janus indicates, headlinese rather than a validation that the article may be dropped elsewhere. There are situations where usage seems indeterminate (he's got nerve / a nerve), but I'd class both these as fixed idioms and say that trying to determine countness is a waste of time (though He's got three nerves. is of course unacceptable). // The indefinite article sometimes appears with non-count noun usages. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 11:54 | comment | added | Sam | and if you can give me the sample of the "particular cases". It must be great help | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 11:46 | comment | added | Sam | Ah I was editing it haha. Check this [Thanks. Like when I set the title of story I made up, could the title of the book (or any types of exhibition) be "dream for the Atlantis". I know the word "dream" is mostly considered as a countable noun. If it is, however, differently nuanced, can I use it with "zero article"?? I assume it would get some sense of indefinite, uncertain or abstract concept.] | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 11:40 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Titles are special cases and have special rules; they're often in telegraphese, which eschews determiners, progressive aspects, pronouns, and many other things. They are grammatical only in that particular style. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 11:38 | comment | added | Sam | Thanks. Like when I set the title of story I made up, could the title of the book (or any types of exhibition) be "dream for the Atlantis". I know the word "dream" is mostly considered as a countable noun. but if it is differently nuanced | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 10:22 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Could you give some examples? Count nouns generally do require a determiner of some sort. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 9:41 | history | asked | Sam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |