single determiner doesn’t apply to .. each element must
be preceded by the appropriate determiner
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She is a talk show host, author and comedian.
(That would be wrong because it is a non-parallel sentence. It is a talk show
host and AN author. So each element must be preceded by the appropriate
article.)
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He is an officer and gentleman. (incorrect; He
is an officer and A gentleman.)
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sentences 13 und 14
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Prüfung:
Lückentext: Artikel einsetzen
Theorie: anhand von Beispielen erklären
Sätze fertig stellen
Sätze übersetzen
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sentence no 15
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wrong: ...the house,
grounds and a new Diana tribute museum.
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right: ...the house, the grounds and a new Diana
tribute museum.
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sentence 16
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better: an opossum and “possibly some rats”
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sentence 17
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possessives: Mr. Jagger’s (genitive) arms, his
legs, and even his magnificent lips
Capitalization of articles
Sometimes “the” is part of a name. For example of a
city, town,..
In this case it would be capitalized.
The word must be uppercased (großer Anfangsbuchstabe).
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The Hague
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The Planes
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The Bronx
Def. art. is not uppercased, it is lowercased in the
names of countries, institutions, rock groups..
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the United
Kingdom
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the Philippines
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the Vatican
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the Bronx
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the University of California
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the Rolling Stones
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the Who
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the Beatles
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but: The The (British rock group)
articles in the titles of works
generally uppercased the first word and final word of
a title or subtitle as well as all other words, except: prepositions consisting
of up to 4 letters, coordinating conjunctions and the infinitive “to” (=balance
sentences because they join similar sentence components)
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For, and, nor, but, or, yet and so on
(coordinating conj.)
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The Urge (cap. because noun) to (infinitive,
therefore small) Splurge (title), A Study (noun) of (preposition consisting of
less than 4 letters) Consumer Behaviors and (small because coord. conj.)
Misbehaviors (subtitle)
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Against the Grain, An Anthology of Essays About
(prepos. consisting of more than 4 letters, therefore capitalized) Deviating
(gerund) from the Norm
also capitalized: linking words (any form of “to be”),
pronouns and subordinating conjunctions (introduce subordinate or dependent
clauses = Nebensätze)
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subordinating conjunctions: after (as
conjunction not as preposition), although, as, as if, as long as, as though,
because, before, even though, if, in order that, providing that, once, since,
so that, that, though, unless, until, when, where, why
titles of novels are capitalized
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A Separate (adjective therefore cap.) Peace
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The Catcher in the Rye
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the Bible
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the New Testament
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the Talmud (Jewish Bible)
newspapers and magazines:
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The Times
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but: I read it in the Times.
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I read it in the Philadelphia Enquiry.
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I read it in the Washington Post.
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