Timeline for Should we use articles with "temporal resolution"
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| Nov 9, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @hbak It seems that the definition of EEG is in dispute. Perhaps, like many words in the dictionary, it has two different senses. (I've only ever heard, "I'm sending you to get an EEG," for example.) Depending on which sense you are using it in, it may or may not need some kind of pronoun or article in front of it. (I've updated my answer.) It's funny because that was just a side comment, and not really relevant to the question or answer itself. | |
| Nov 9, 2018 at 21:08 | history | edited | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2018 at 21:05 | comment | added | hbak | Based on what I have read in the literature EEG is referred to as a general technique. For instance ".. While electroencephalography (EEG) provides temporal resolution... " Source: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016622369594489R | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 3:10 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @CowperKettle From the Mayo Clinic (which a more authoritarian source), "an electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that detects electrical activity in your brain using small, metal discs (electrodes) attached to your scalp." | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 2:30 | comment | added | CowperKettle | From Wikipedia: "Electroencephalography (EEG) is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record electrical activity of the brain." Thus, EEG can be used to refer to a technique. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 22:47 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @JeremyC EEG is an acronym for electroencephalogram. You would not say "electroencephalogram has excellent resolution." You need to use some kind of an article. It can also be plural: "Electroencephalograms have excellent resolution. EEG is not used as a mass noun in the same way as TV (or television) is. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 22:40 | comment | added | JeremyC | @JasonBashford I don't follow the argument that the definite article is needed for subject-verb agreement. Without the article 'EEG' refers to EEG as a technique. With it, 'the EEG' suggests that we are talking about a particular instance of the use of EEG. To use another example, "TV provides excellent evening entertainment" and "the TV provides excellent evening entertainment" are both idiomatic and grammatically correct. Or am I wrong? | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 18:58 | comment | added | Eddie Kal | Upvoted. But I have always seen "resolution" in the sense of a degree of visibility function as a mass noun. I checked Macmillan, Oxford, and Cambridge, and they seem to concur as regards the countability of the word. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 16:58 | history | answered | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |