Seriously, that sounds idiomatic? Huh. What dialect?
And, any, yes, I can find cites that explicitly state that its wrong.
This is pretty basic English stuff.
And here’s a BBC cite if you want.
There are exceptions when it’s part of the name, like “The Gambia” or “The Ukraine” (although I believe that particular usage is deprecated.) I have never heard anyone naturally refer to the states as “the California” or “the Delaware,” which is what would be required to render it as “the California’s mayor” or “the Delaware’s mayor.”
Except “the” is not for the state’s name. It is for “governor”. It’s basic English stuff. As I already explained in the very first post on the subject. Did you miss it?
In “the red ball” the article is not there for “red”. It is for “ball”.
Or if you prefer, staying with the subject, “the Ohio’s governor’s race”. What is “the” for? “ohio”, “governor” or “race”?
He’s just probably used to putting the “the” in front of Ukraine he’s doing it to US states now.
Exactly! And you don’t put a possessive after red, which is used as an adjective there, do you? “The California governor.” Not “the California’s governor.”
Once again: basic English. I really don’t think the vast majority of native English speakers would find the sentence “Who is the California’s governor” idiomatic. I mean, I have an English degree and I worked for a spell in copy editing. That said, I’m pretty permissive and interested in non-standard English dialects. But I’m just not aware of this one, which is why I ask what dialect you speak.
Again: “the Florida’s governor’s race”. Is WaPo authoritativeenough for you? Or UPI?
No, they are not. I believe those are all errors. Would you like me to ask my copy editing friends who work in the industry?
ETA: And, hah! You found examples from 1978 (!), 2002, and 2012. Well, no shit, ask me to find a stupid grammar error in that time range in a major publication and I will.
I enjoy bashing Okrahoma as much as anyone, but good god this argument is tiresome.
OK, I’m out. I’ve made my point.
So have I. I can literally give a few hundred of examples from major publications but why bother?
3.5 million Americans without food or power and you guys argue about the proper placement of the definite article?
New around here?
I doubt that’s what’s keeping Trump from sending aid.
When it’s wrong, it’s wrong.
It isn’t like I can personally go rewire the Puerto’s Rico’s power grid’s.
Misplaced apostrophe! Burn the unbeliever!
I laughed.
Yeah, this sounds like a guy that’s happy with the government response.
Ddamn, Okrahoma tripping all over himself in this thread! Seems like he’s having a hard time remembering what his priority goals are or something. This isn’t going to go over well with his handlers back in Russia, IMO.
Trump pretends he was for Moore along.
After deleting his tweets in support of Strange.