Malinka Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
using articles with titles (a count/the count??)
Hello to everybody!!
Need your help!
Should I use a/the/or no article in the following sentences:
She had to get married to .....count (or Count) Altenburg.
She is a daugter of .....baron (or Baron) XXX.
Thanks.
Need your help!
Should I use a/the/or no article in the following sentences:
She had to get married to .....count (or Count) Altenburg.
She is a daugter of .....baron (or Baron) XXX.
Thanks.
Top answer
Hi, Such things are a matter of custom and usage rather than of grammar. We normally say this. Yesterday, I met Count Dracula.
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Hi,
Such things are a matter of custom and usage rather than of grammar.
We normally say this.
Yesterday, I met Count Dracula.
Yesterday I met the Count of Monte Cristo.
Yesterday, I met Prince Charles.
Yesterday, I met the Prince of Wales.
It's not a problem that most people tend to encounter in everyday life.
Such things are a matter of custom and usage rather than of grammar.
We normally say this.
Yesterday, I met Count Dracula.
Yesterday I met the Count of Monte Cristo.
Yesterday, I met Prince Charles.
Yesterday, I met the Prince of Wales.
It's not a problem that most people tend to encounter in everyday life.
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1. What is called the of-genitive in Europe requires an article, as Clive has shown: the prince of Wales.
2. If a title used in the Anglo-Saxon world is followed by the person's name, no article is used:
Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, President Bush.
3. If a title not used in the Anglo-Saxon world is followed by the person's n
2. If a title used in the Anglo-Saxon world is followed by the person's name, no article is used:
Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, President Bush.
3. If a title not used in the Anglo-Saxon world is followed by the person's n
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