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Grammar question about “The third” and “third”:
In the following sentence: “The amount of population in A fell to the third place, replacing B.”
Why my grammar software suggests delete “the” before “third”? Is this just a bug or actually my mistake?
I thought there must be a “the” before ordinal number.
2022年9月26日 11:21
回答 · 2
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In the example you gave, you do not use “the”. However, if it is used as an adjective, you use “the”:
“The first-place winner was John Smith.”
“He is definitely going to win the first-place prize.”
I am sure there is a grammatical rule about all of this, but I don’t know what it is. Hopefully a teacher can explain.
2022年9月26日
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When you are dealing with expressions like “first-place” or “third-place,” you don’t need ‘the’ before it. Another example:
“They finished second-place in the race.”
2022年9月26日
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