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Thread: Definite Article
- 16-Mar-2007, 19:38 #1
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Definite Article In the sentence "To see that you live in heaven - you have to go through hell first" should there be a 'the' in front of "heaven" and "hell"?
- 16-Mar-2007, 20:22 #2
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Teacher Re: Definite Article No. 'Live in heaven ... go through hell'; the metaphorical/metaphysical places have no article. You can say 'He had to go through the hell of constant rejection'; but the place presided over, allegedly, by Old Nick has no 'the'.
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