Today, in our grammar class on articles we discussed when to put a definite article (the) in front of names of countries, and we didn't come to a decision about whether Ukraine or The Ukraine was correct. The answer is below, copied from Wikipedia. It looks like you were right, Anatoliy, but old habits die hard.
Ukraine, from Wikipedia
"Ukraine" is from Old East Slavic ukraina meaning "borderland". It derives from u ("by, at") and the Slavic root kraj ("edge; region").[6] The territory was so named because it was the borderland or "frontier zone" of medieval Russia at the time of the Tatar invasion in the 13th century. ... In the Ukrainian language, krayina simply means "country." In English, the country is referred to without the definite article, conforming to the usual English grammar rules for names of countries. Before the country's independence in 1991, the country was often referred to as The Ukraine. The term Ukraine rather than The Ukraine is now predominant in diplomacy and journalism.
The Fifth Week at NAIT
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Last Friday, we finished Business Mathematics final test,everyone well down!
Louisa has a rich teaching experience, she taught us very clear.
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2 comments:
Like we THEORETICALLY know, the definite article is used as is used as follows:
-before an unique noun(the moon, the earth, the star, the sun, the air)
-when we use the superlatives (the best year, the youngest girl, the most important, the fastest)
-before ordinal numeral (the first, the second, the twenty-first
-before nouns which represents names of collectivities and institutions (the Army, the Crowd, the Goverment, the Police)
-before a proper nouns (the Browns, the National Theatre, the New York Times, the Beatles)
-before nouns who indicates names of geographical places, mountains, rivers, oceans, seas ( the Alps, the Atlantic, the Danube, the Black Sea, the Sahara)
Hi Susan, this is just a comment for my marks, because we need to make three comments. Enjoy your weekend!
A good following of the rules, Adriana. But you can make comments on anybody's blogs, not just mine.
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