Hi, Can you please rander your opinion on a couple of sentences for me? After reading your comments, I've developed slight doubts on a couple of questions concerning the use of definite article myself. The snag for me is that what sounds

Both the banana and the lemon are yellow in colour. - Is the second 'the' necessary or optional? It sounds odd to me if you omit it. Hi Clive, Can you please rander your opinion on a couple of sentences for me? After reading your

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My comment on your 3 sentences remains the same as above: There is no difference unless context reveals that the retention and research are mentioned previously or otherwise specified. Superlatives by nature take normally take the definite

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

Hello. "Use the definite article with plural countable nouns or uncountable nouns to refer to the entire category in existence or to a specific subset of the category as defined by the context. When particles of matter meet with and

Hi, If ABC Graduate Recruitment is the name of a graduate scheme, then which of the following sentences are correct? note: there are more than 1 vacancy I am interested in the ABC Graduate Recruitment Vacancies I am interested

There are whole books on this subject, Anon. 95% of the uses of the definite article are at the front of a noun phrase to indicate that the noun is a specific one known to the speaker and/or listener, or that the noun has been mentioned previously

Just with the context you have provided I am inclined to say that omitting the articles is an error. However, as you probably know, article use is quite idiomatic and speaker dependent as well as being very context dependent. Without a more

A human sensor detects people when they are in the sensing area of the sensor. The sensor can be connected to various types of lighting equipment. In the above context, is the definite article before "lighting equipment" in the following