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Unread Oct 11th, 2012, 09:59 am
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In the sentence 'I like European culture and Asian', why can't I say that this sentence is correct because there is an omitted word 'culture' after ASIAN? Is it because only THE can perform an ellipsis role? like saying 'I like the ancient English language and the modern'.
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