If a university is named by a place, like "the Univerisity of Bonn". Can I call it "Bonn University"? When saying the former, is the mistake serious if without definite article "the" before "university"?
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In some scientific papers, we see that some professors write "University of Bla" on their papers, while others write "Bla University". What is the difference between "University of Bla" and "Bla University"? Are there any differences at all?
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I came across this English sentence when I was reading an article:     Have you ever met anyone on holiday who you were friends with at school or university?    Wasn't it supposed to be "friend" in place of "friends" there?
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Many place names have different form/spelling in English and in the original language of the country, in which they lie, e.g. Lyons x Lyon, The Hague x Den Haag, Munich x München. Most of them are used so commonly that there is no question about their usage in English (e.g. I would definitely write Cologne and not Köln); however, there are also cases, which are more ambiguous because they are not used often. Specifically, I came across an English variant Ratisbon for Regensburg in Germany. I never encountered this variant before and I wonder whether I should use it in a list of publications, if all other places of publication in this case are anglicized (e.g. Cologne, Munich). What is the general rule for using anglicized versions of place names versus the use in the original language?
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Say we had the following:     Higher Education spending, clout, and influence in New York State is substantial. Within the State’s borders...   Should the latter instance of State be capitalized or not?
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say that it's based on the context, but they suggest the form without the.  However, when I read , the first sentence is the following:      The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly referred to as the United States (US or U.S.) and America, is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal district.   I always thought that it was with the definite article like "The United States" or "the USA" or "the UK" or "the United Kingdom" etc.   Are there any situations when the definite article is omitted in these cases mentioned above?
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"The new laws are seen as an attempt to gag the press." In this sentence why the definite article 'the' is used before 'laws'(noun). I always get confused when to use 'the' and when not to. My teacher taught me, it is used when both speaker and listener are aware of what they are talking about i.e. both of them are familiar with that(noun). Can someone please clarify this? I have a feeling that I should've used 'the' before 'speaker' and 'listener' in the above sentence. Am I right?
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Which would be correct?        The fridge, the shelves, the walls, the floor, and John himself, were all covered in foam.   The fridge, shelves, walls, floor, and John himself, were all covered in foam.      The the can be applied to all the nouns, so is there a need to repeat it?
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When should a noun that’s used at­tribu­tively to de­scribe an­other  noun be plu­ral, and when should it be sin­gu­lar?  And when should it be pos­ses­sive, like bak­er’s dozen and when should it be plu­ral pos­ses­sive, like farm­ers’ mar­ket?  In other words, why do we say teach­ers union rather than teacher  union?  And why do we say wed­ding plan­ner rather than wed­dings plan­ner?  Which of these vari­ants is or are cor­rect?        stu­dent union   stu­dents union   stu­den­t’s union   stu­dents’ union      What about com­mu­nity val­ues ver­sus com­mu­ni­ty’s val­ues?  Please note I am look­ing for a gen­eral rule or at least some tips.  These are only ex­am­ples.  Up­date: It seems even na­tive speak­ers fol­low their per­sonal  style to write such com­pound words. I won­der why in the IELTS lis­ten­ing sec­tion, the lan­guage learner has to write a spe­ci­fic form and there is no rule for this.
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In the following sentence, how would I indicate possession if the word "business'" were replaced by the name of the business: like "Fry's" or "Wendy's"?     Some business' employees are happy.   It seems strange to say that Wendy's employees are happy, since I'm referring to the business, and not just Wendy.
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In  related question (), the OP asks if it is grammatical to use the definite article before phrases like Advanced programming in Java whitepaper and Microsoft Office 2010 product. The accepted answer by @Kosmonaut was:     Yes, it is. This is because the "Advanced programming in Java"   whitepaper phrase forms a syntactic unit, with whitepaper as the head   of the unit. The definite article for a phrase always corresponds to   the head of the phrase, so using the definite (or indefinite) article   for these phrases makes perfect sense and is correct English.   My question is whether the same answer applies to phrases like Heathrow Airport, Hyde Park,  Waterloo Station, Edgware Road and Parliament Square. I ask becase it seems to me that airport, park and station, etc. sound like they are part of the proper noun itself, and not simply a common noun. Moreover, I think the head of the unit in these cases would be the place name (first noun) and not the place type (second noun). If that's true, then I assume that no definite article should precede these phrases. Is that correct?
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I am not quite sure whether in the following sentence the construction of the verbs and the rest of wording are correct:     Should the construction of the University Hospital be completed, this would indeed set new standards - both in terms of size ("one of Germany’s largest university hospitals") as well as with a view to the technological advances.
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Usually, we do not use the definite article, the, before names of countries but we use the before "United States of America".   Is there a specific reason for using the article before the country "United States of America"?
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During my final year at university, I wrote what I thought was a "bachelor thesis". Right before printing it I stumbled upon several documents stating the name "bachelor's thesis".  (Here we do not call it a dissertation just yet, so this question is only about the possessive bachelor's vs. bachelor.) A couple of Google search queries later, I had not found out which of these terms is correct.  Which should I use?
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I am writing my thesis, and the title goes as follows "A study of data mining techniques for ...". I wonder if it would be better to omit the indefinite article "a" in the title, i.e. "Study of data mining techniques for ..." Perhaps both titles are correct, but probably one of the two is more appropriate (but I don't know which one because I am not a native English speaker).
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I was taught at an early age in the USA that when we write about our President, we are supposed to capitalize the title in order to signify that it's on the federal level. Is it correct to always do this? And what about saying "the presidency" -- should that be "the Presidency"?
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I can’t for the life of me figure out where to use a and where to use the — and where there is no article at all. Is there a simple rule of thumb to memorize?   The standard rule you always hear:     “If a person knows which item you are talking about then use "the"   . . . doesn’t clear things up for me, as I have no idea whether or not they know.
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Is there any alternative to this construction?      It was too stupid a question.    I mean, can we somehow put the 'a' in a different position and is it used in English (maybe informal) or the version I've given is the only possible?  Also, I feel as if something's wrong in my previous sentence, it would be very nice if anybody corrected it.