2014年4月30日 星期三

公司名、機構名的the

No article is usually needed in front of company names.

Cisco Systems, Microsoft, CBS, EMI, Hitachi, Lufthansa, Facebook, etc

The is used for newspapers.   

The Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Australian

The is used for many larger organizations and institutions (not commercial enterprises), including those with initials that are normally spelled out.

The Commonwealth, the Fed, the EU, the WHO, the BBC, the FDA, the IAEA, etc.

Acronyms (initials read as whole words) are treated in the same way as regular names (proper nouns) and so do not require any article.

Compare:
OPEC, NATO, ICANN, etc.

If you are uncertain, please monitor usage in the media or consult a dictionary.

即是商業公司名就不用the,其他機構名就要the.

http://www.davidappleyard.com/english/articles.htm

但留意, 大學不當作機構,應當作地方看待.


No article is needed for most places consisting of just the name of a person, or the name of a person/place followed by a noun.


Harrods, Macys, McDonald's, Lloyds Bank, St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Kennedy Airport, Waterloo Station, Cambridge University, etc.

The is used in titles and place names including of.

It is unlikely the Queen of Denmark has ever swum in the Bay of Bengal.


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