czaki232
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This is exact quote from Boris Johnson's twitter. He posted that after Queen Elisabeth's death.
I am posting it here, because I would like to understand, why did Boris put articles in places there he did.
I am posting it here, because I would like to understand, why did Boris put articles in places there he did.
This is our country's saddest day. In the hearts (1) of every one of us there is an ache at the passing of our Queen, a deep and personal sense of loss (2) — far more intense, perhaps, than we expected.
In these first grim moments since the news, I know that millions and millions of people have been pausing whatever they have been doing, to think about Queen Elizabeth (3), about the bright and shining light that has finally gone out.
She seemed so timeless and so wonderful that I am afraid we had come to believe, like children, that she would just go on and on.
Wave after wave (4) of grief is rolling across the world, from Balmoral — where our thoughts are with all the Royal Family — and breaking far beyond this country and throughout that great Commonwealth (5) of nations that she so cherished and which cherished her in return.
- the hearts - it is plural, it is countable, shouldn't be here zero article ?
- loss - shouldn't be "the loss" here ? I have even an example from dictionary " The loss of his wife was a great blow to him."
- Is that that the case when we say "Queen Elizabeth", "Prince Charles" we `do not` use article?
- Wave after wave - completely do not understand why here is without any articles
- Commonwealth is without articles, because of "that" ?