omission of an article

Hi esem, and welcome. I know that if I want to point to or mean a specific

thing I'd use the, but if some is known to everyone, I needn't use the.

Re: omission of an article


Articles, indefinate articles and such don't have the weight in English they do in other languages. From my understanding, you can omit any word so long as its omission does not effect the meaning of the sentence.

However, in some cases context overrules everything: "The current setup of monetary policy" implies something different than "the monetary policy." Specifically, it asserts a change in the monetary policy is needed, or that the current monetary policy is better than a proposed monetary policy. The phrase "the current setup of" is effectively an adjective.



The sentence breaks down like this:

THIS, SAYS THEM, IS BECAUSE OF THIS.

While I think I know what you're asking, that's all the help I can give you on this one. Sorry.

It would be correct to say "the excessive exchange rate appreciation" (the appreciation is part of the noun phrase) if everyone to whom the sentence was addressed was familiar with a specific "excessive exchange rate appreciation" and knew what was being referenced. With the current context, I'm guessing that they aren't, and that the actual identity of the "excessive exchange rate appreciation" in question isn't important to the meaning of the sentence.