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SSY Jung Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

is/was

Dear

"Telephone is/was invented by Bell"

Which one of be verb correct?

Thanks

SSY
  

Top answer

The telephone was invented by Bell .

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The telephone was invented by Bell.
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Would yo tell me why we have ro use "the" in the sentence.

Thakns
SSY
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The definite article is often used when talking about inventions. In any case, telephone normally requires the presence of some determiner when it is the head of an NP.
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