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fw
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 Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:25 pm Post subject: hardest-hit Bantul district |
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Should �the� have been before �hardest-hit Bantul district� in the sentence below?
The main hospital in hardest-hit Bantul district was still overwhelmed, with 400 patients for just over 100 beds, and doctors complained of a lack of supplies.
(http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:vRx9gO04mLgJ:rssfeeds.usatoday.com/usatoday-NewsTopStories%3Fm%3D3351+%22the+main+hospital+in+hardest-hit+Bantul+district%22&hl=ja&gl=jp&ct=clnk&cd=1)
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welkins2139
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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no need to put the article,
here is the reason,
Bantul district is an area of a country or town that is already specific. for example did you put the definite article on NYcity ? no need article.
I sense that the word " district " was used in similar to the word " city " You don't put a definite article before NYC.
If you delete Bantul, then you need the definite article.
The main hospital in THE hardest-hit district.
I might be wrong. I just gave a try. |
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