sugarcane писал(а):
не то что англичане. те согласились определенный артикль перед Украина более не употреблять.
Перемога, высосанная из пальца?
Цитата:
Topic 1. Repetition. Use of articles by geographical names
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As you already know, with the names of countries and the city, articles are usually not used.
But, there are exceptions:
cities:
The Hague (The Hague)
Countries (for historical reasons):
The Sudan, The Yemen, The Argentina - these names of countries can be used without the article. Also The Netherlands (Netherlands), as in the name for historical reasons there is a plural.
The Philippines (in fact, this is the name of a group of islands)
[b]Countries in the name of which there are such terms as the States, the Republic, the Federation, the Kingdom[/b]... that is not their own names: The United States of America, The United Kingdom, The Russian Federation. With the abbreviations of these names, the definite article is also used: The USSR.
Note
A definite and indefinite article can be used with the names of cities and countries, but only if there is a specific context.
It was the Paris of my youth. It was (that same) Paris of my youth.
"Of my youth" is the context necessary for the use of a particular article.
When he returned twenty years later, he found a new America. - When he returned 20 years later, he discovered (some) a new America.
Цитата:
The use of the article relates to the time before independence in 1991, when Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet Union known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, she says. Since then, it should be merely Ukraine.
Полное согласие с выделенным красным правилом грамматики. Никаких изменений английской грамматики для щирых
