 Wed Jul 04, 2007 13:42 pm How to punctuate this? 'Do you know..." |
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The best idea is to break it up, Tom:
Do you know that there are many names for a television? Perhaps the most pejorative of all is 'the idiot box'.
The article before 'television' because the allusion is to the appliance and not to the medium; the article before 'idiot box' because it is giving the appliance a name.
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