2017年8月30日 · In that case, "the northeastern United States" might refer to this circled area instead: Here are some corrections for your sentences (except #6, which is fine as-is). Note that we need to use an article: I lived in the northeast US. I lived in the northeastern US. I lived in the northeast of the US. I lived in the northeastern area.

2020年11月8日 · E. Bagby Atwood’s 1953 study A Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United States found that dove was chiefly Northeastern, used as the dominant form in New England, Upstate New York, and the Northeast corridor as far south as Wilmington, Delaware.

2014年8月3日 · "The States" refers to the collection of states, "The US" refers to the states that are united, or, more loosely, to the union of States. The problem is that there's very, very, very many nations made up of multiple states. Even Belgium is made up out of 3 parts that could very well be called states.

2016年10月18日 · USA is an abbreviation for United States of America, and the is used because the proper noun is a noun phrase whose main noun is the ordinary noun States. The definite article is also used in other country names (and their abbreviations) that are phrases made from ordinary nouns, such as the United Kingdom or the People's Republic of China.

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly referred to as the United States (US or U.S.) and America, is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal district. I always thought that it was with the definite article like "The United States" or "the USA" or "the UK" or "the United Kingdom" etc.

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." 2) If the country (or other subnational feature) is plural, use an article. The Phillipines and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are the only countries I know of that are plural (not counting countries included in rule one), but the rule also works for sub-national divisions, like "the ...

2020年10月7日 · Depending on your definition of 'translation', that might be untranslatable, as there's a conceptual gap at play. Different educational systems have different categories; while Brazil has a federal law defining the types of academic degrees, as far as I know, it is not the case for the United States (or I'm not aware of that).

The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Here does it mean US is not a direct democracy in the manner of way a country X is? I mean for example like Switzerland.

This would be unnecessary if you were talking about the President of the United States, but might be called for in other cases. For example, if you were listing other offices at the time: He was elected as Chief Dogcatcher in 2012 and as Chairman of the Board in 2016. But you wouldn't need even it in that case. It does no harm, but it is an ...

2024年7月2日 · The United States has a rather unique way of writing the date that is imitated in very few other countries (although Canada and Belize do also use the form). In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form –