By Definite articles, Universities

Thank you, Clive. I think you were right in using an example with "I went to the sentence" in it because it is followed with a sentence stating the reason of his visiting that physical place, if you will, but if that child happens to be super smart and was going to the college, it would be...

General Canadian English is extremely similar to General American English. However, there are a number of differences between the two dialects. Firstly, GCE (General Canadian English) exhibits a linguistic phenomenon called Canadian Raising. Basically, the diphthong “ai”--as in "by" or "lie"--is...

Hi, Yankee, Let me give you somewhat exact context to try to set the stage straight, so I can ask you the question more clearly. In a tread started by Ethanw, with its name "definite article," I think he asked why there seems to be a definite noun in front of the proper nouns and one sentence...

Bob is in the hospital => means Bob is hospitalized. Bob is in college => means Bob is studying in a university Bob is in (the) office => Does this sentence need a definite article to imply Bob is working in his office? I know 'his office' will do just fine but I am interested to know...

Thanks for your input! I still have a dilemma. Look at the following article which comes from Purdue University's on line writing lab. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslart.html Note also that in English, the indefinite articles are used to indicate membership in a profession,...

Hi, I think it is stated pretty plainly that one of the possible conditions for the requirement of the definite article the is the existence of a post-modifying clause or phrase that is restrictive. From what I know, I think the articles are optional for so-called verbal nouns (I don't know it...

Your additions of the definite article can certainly be correct in context, as you said-- but if the questions are stand-alone, then the test taker cannot presume outside context, and the answers of these isolated questions could only be at university and for dinner.Does that help?

When you are talking about a particular university which is near Shangrilla hotel you have to use definite article 'the' .

The definite article appears before a host of singular proper nouns:The Meiji Era, the University of Chicago, the Roman Catholic church, the Peloponnesian Wars, the Ford Motor Company, the Monroe Doctrine, the Panama Canal, the Hawaiian Islands, the Matterhorn, the Philippines, the Empire State...

Hi, I need help with the following sentence. I'm not sure whether I should use a definite article before the word university. Or probably I should use 'my'. Here's the sentence: What do you think of young teachers? There are some (or we have some this is OK, too) at my university. my...