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You can't say 'My favourite flower is rose'; that makes no sense, and it could be ambiguous. Bill, apparently we have different opinions. My favorite candy is chocolate. - no . To say it another way: Chocolate is my favorite candy. We
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When I show a watch, which I bought yesterday,” to a friend of mine, I think I can say: “This is the watch that I bought yesterday.”
An English usage reference book that I have explains “This is a book that I bought yesterday” is also
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I don't know what you are imagining, either. The relationship between the noun and the noun in the modifying prepositional phrase is certainly not a factor, though. The definite article (inappropriate in both of your examples, since they are
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It seems that people say, "She is popular with *the* men," without specifying which men they are talking about. Now, ... without a definite article, or does this miss some sort of nuance the definite article would give? I'm very
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