- We had a couple of hours on shore.
- The island is about three miles off shore.
- Rubbish of all sorts is washed up on the shore.
Why did we not use the in the first and second sentences? Aren't there already a specific place in the sentences?
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- We had a couple of hours on shore.
- The island is about three miles off shore.
- Rubbish of all sorts is washed up on the shore.
Why did we not use the in the first and second sentences? Aren't there already a specific place in the sentences?
Offshore = off shore = off the shore
Onshore = on shore = on the shore
Basically, they were phrases that were used so commonly they become words of their own.