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Mon 18 Jun, 2012 09:14 am
1) Experts are not sure what causes SAD, but they think it may be caused by a lack of sunlight.
2)Experts are not sure what causes SAD, but they think it may be caused by the lack of sunlight.
3) Experts are not sure what causes SAD, but they think it may be caused by lack of sunlight.
@oristarA,
Both 1 and 3 are correct. 2 would be correct if it was part of a longer sentence. Experts are not sure what causes SAD, but they think it may be caused by the lack of sunlight
in winter months.
1 is corrrect.
2 implies a singular instance, as opposed to a generality, namely, a lack of sunlight.
In regard to 3, stylistically, I don't like the omittance of articles because it leads to ambiguity, and makes a sentence sound incomplete.
@InfraBlue,
In that we differ, I prefer 3 to 1.
@InfraBlue,
Quote:In regard to 3, stylistically, I don't like the omittance of articles because it leads to ambiguity, and makes a sentence sound incomplete.
There's no ambiguity in the sentence with no article, Infra. And the sentence is, and sounds complete.
Not "lack of sunlight" generally, but lack of exposure to sunlight.
Unless we're talking about the shorter days of winter, and cloudier conditions then.
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