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 Re: Are there too many "the"s?
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Originally Posted by finefeeling  Dear language experts,
I wrote the following sentence, but I'm not very happy with all the "the"s in it. Are there too many of them?
On the night of the event, the chairman of the board, the school principal, the seniors, the teachers and the students, again, welcomed Mr. Lin heartily. | There aren't too many "the"s, but there are too many commas. I would omit the comma after "event", and I would definitely omit the commas before and after "again". |