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" In protest against not making Hindi the national language, Dr Chandrasekharan Nair and other members of KHSA go on fast"/ or start fasting.
( A headline .)
This is a caption accompanying a photo. Is the sentence construction correct.?
The idea is, that some people fast in protest at not making the Hindi language the national language .
The idea is, that some people fast in protest at not making Hindi the national language .
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:36 pm hi please correct |
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As it has surfaced here, I would like to know if we can use the article 'the' before 'Hindi'? It confuses me a lot.
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Also, can we remove one of the 'language' words? --
The idea is that some people fast in protest at not making Hindi language the national language.
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The idea is that some people fast in protest at not making Hindi the national language.
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Mar 12, 2009 14:21 pm hi please correct |
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Hi Gray, I have already edited the post to the form that I would choose to use.
Both bold text show the way that I would write the article.
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