By Definite articles, Translation

Hi, Thank you so much again.Can anyone tell me why having the indefinite article 'a' is the right thing to do here? I don't think the italicized words are proper nouns, since among other reasons which I can't think of right now, they are not capitalized. They seem to be literal...

Yes, it's possible but it changes the meaning. Use the definite article where the noun is already known to the listener/reader or has been introduced in a prior sentence.

Well, I am not a native speaker of English but I happen to be Czech too and, from your English version, I can see almost exactly what you have tried to translate (vykon statni/verejne spravy..., right?). That normally means that the translation is too verbatim and, frankly, wrong."With a view to"...

Please, could you tell me if I translated the title of my paper correctly. Do I have to use there the definite article in front of Czech Repuplic? This is my translation: 1) Criminal Law Aspects of Execution of the Public Administration in the Czech Republic with a View to the Czech Customs...

Yeah, that was a bit more helpful. Thanks again, Goodman. I understood my simple mistakes (was->were, vigors->vigor,...) after your first post. Now I have understood a few more ones. Here are the problems that I still haven't resolved: Sorry for maybe stupid questions, but even a...

Paco2004 wrote:"The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb and...

"The farther you move away from Earth's center, the less the pull of gravity becomes" This "the" was originally "thy", i.e., the instrumental case of the nominative definite article "the" and was used to mean "by means of". Now this "the" is lexically classed as an adverb and OED's grammarians...

Hello Mr Ruzinsky, let me continue. As you pointed out, Sentences using Bare Plurals, that is common nouns without quantifiers, are vague. It's true. But sentences with definite /indefinite articles, too, have two (or several) usages. For example: And, there's some similarity between...

Hi Lyn, Here is one of my posts from a previous thread on the topic of articles. It might help. Posted: 03-30-2005 12:26 PM The correct use of articles is acknowledged to be one of the most difficult points of English grammar, so don't be despondant Ali; mistakes don't usually matter too...

abbie, thank you so much for your help and your words, in fact , I am always not confident in my translation work, so far I can't manage to use definite articles"the" correctly ,which has troubled me a lot since i began to learn english a few years ago. :( do you have msn ,maybe we can...