High on grammar
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Dear English language teacher:
According to “ The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language”: a ship’s doctor is is accepted , a school’s doctor is not( should be “a school doctor”)
I saw many examples “the school’s doctor” on Googlebooks but none of “ a school’s doctor”. I would like to know the difference between the two.
If “ a ship’s doctor” is acceptable in English then what is it about “ a school’s doctor that makes it non-English but when you use “the” before it, it becomes acceptable.
Here is what I found on googlebooks:
[h=3][FONT="]Source: [/FONT][/h] [h=3][/h][h=3] [/h][h=3] [FONT="]"The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation History-page 9[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]"
A frail thirteen-year-old freshman with barely skin on his bones, Jack tired of being treated by [/FONT][FONT="]the school's doctor[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]for weeks on end; at dinner, rather than chatting with the rest of the kids, he sat quietly next to the doctor and the headmaster's ...[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
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Thanks a million.
According to “ The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language”: a ship’s doctor is is accepted , a school’s doctor is not( should be “a school doctor”)
I saw many examples “the school’s doctor” on Googlebooks but none of “ a school’s doctor”. I would like to know the difference between the two.
If “ a ship’s doctor” is acceptable in English then what is it about “ a school’s doctor that makes it non-English but when you use “the” before it, it becomes acceptable.
Here is what I found on googlebooks:
[h=3][FONT="]Source: [/FONT][/h] [h=3][/h][h=3] [/h][h=3] [FONT="]"The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation History-page 9[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="]"
A frail thirteen-year-old freshman with barely skin on his bones, Jack tired of being treated by [/FONT][FONT="]the school's doctor[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]for weeks on end; at dinner, rather than chatting with the rest of the kids, he sat quietly next to the doctor and the headmaster's ...[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
[/h][h=3][/h]
Thanks a million.
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