Mkyol Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
should 'the' be used in these sentences?
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"This chapter analyzes (the) communication overhead of the proposed three-tier context-based information collection technique for mobile terminals."
"For the analysis, an analytical model is defined, and in order to measure (the) performance of the proposed routing protocol, a comparison is made with another preexisting protocol."
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"In order to simplify analysis, (the) cost for merging of data and query, and (the) maintenance costs for the routing protocols are not considered." Here, the meaning of cost does want to refer to other sentences, but just that it's the cost for merging of data and query(I know merging of data and query sounds a bit awkward, but that's another problem). Also the same with maintenance costs; just want to convey that they are maintenance costs for the routing protocols in the sentence and not any other maintenance costs such as that of cars or something irrelevent in the text. I'm also wondering if it matters if the maintenance cost was mentioned before this sentence, in having the 'the', or not.
Thanks.
"This chapter analyzes (the) communication overhead of the proposed three-tier context-based information collection technique for mobile terminals."
"For the analysis, an analytical model is defined, and in order to measure (the) performance of the proposed routing protocol, a comparison is made with another preexisting protocol."
StartFragment>
"In order to simplify analysis, (the) cost for merging of data and query, and (the) maintenance costs for the routing protocols are not considered." Here, the meaning of cost does want to refer to other sentences, but just that it's the cost for merging of data and query(I know merging of data and query sounds a bit awkward, but that's another problem). Also the same with maintenance costs; just want to convey that they are maintenance costs for the routing protocols in the sentence and not any other maintenance costs such as that of cars or something irrelevent in the text. I'm also wondering if it matters if the maintenance cost was mentioned before this sentence, in having the 'the', or not.
Thanks.
Top answer
I'd use "the" in the first two sentences. Not sure about the third one, it doesn't sound well to me and since I don't understand its meaning, I can't try to rewrite it...
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I'd use "the" in the first two sentences. Not sure about the third one, it doesn't sound well to me and since I don't understand its meaning, I can't try to rewrite it...
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