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Old 05-Jun-2006, 03:24
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Default Re: Variable(s)

You'd be right.

In English, a determiner comes before the noun it modifies, even when the noun is modified by an adjective:

one <subject>
considers <verb>
a/the <determiner>
measured <adjective>
variable <singular noun>

one <subject>
considers <verb>
the <determiner>
measured <adjective>
variables <plural noun>
in this study <prepositional phrase; defining - explains "the">

one <subject>
considers <verb>
measured <adjective>
variables <plural noun>
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