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'the' or without 'the' ('Vietnam' vs 'the Vietnam')



 
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'the' or without 'the' ('Vietnam' vs 'the Vietnam') #1 (permalink) Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:13 am   'the' or without 'the' ('Vietnam' vs 'the Vietnam')
 

hello, i'm a Vietnamese, and we call our country 'Vietnam', not 'the Vietnam'
but is it 'Vietnam's biggest city' or 'the Vietnam biggest city'?
thanks.
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'the' or without 'the' ('Vietnam' vs 'the Vietnam') #2 (permalink) Mon Oct 20, 2008 20:06 pm   'the' or without 'the' ('Vietnam' vs 'the Vietnam')
 

Hi,

There is no need to use 'the' in your sentence. Simply: Vietnam's biggest city.

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