This factory is located in the northeast of the city. Aonbtocind \, the answer is that D is left blank, why? thank you

Let's talk about the usage of lie first: lie indicates the orientation "located in ……", which is often collocated with prepositions, usually prepositions +the+ direction.

1, lying at a certain distance from the surface, such as lying in Shanghai to the south of Beijing.

2. The former lies within the scope of the latter, for example, Guangzhou lies in the south of China.

3. Lying back and forth, adjacent, such as Shandong lying in the east of Henan.

# Have you noticed? Lie and preposition are followed by the.

Secondly, let's talk about the terms East/Southwest/West/North/Southeast/Southwest/Northwest/Northeast.

The above eight words have three parts of speech: nouns/adjectives/adverbs, east/south/west/north/south/southwest/northwest/northeast. The above eight words are only adjectives.

There are four structures to express the direction with the above words:

1.+direction noun+in/in/to+somewhere

2. Part of the tendency adjective (-ern)+ somewhere+

3.in/on/to+ (capitalized) trending nouns/trending adjectives+(capitalized) somewhere: proper nouns

4. Directional adverb +of+ somewhere (you should know that adverbs are not modified by the, and the only modifies nouns and adjectives)

This question belongs to the fourth case, the adverb of orientation does not add the, and because there is no the, there is no preposition after lie.

Take the same example:

Anhui lies in the east of China.

Anhui lies in the east of China.