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Paint fold 111 Posted 6 years ago
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A as a determiner with plurals?

If I say "Two cars drove into a ditch", does that imply they both drove into the same ditch?

  

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paint fold 111 If I say "Two cars drove into a ditch", does that imply they both drove into the same ditch? That's how we would take it in ordinary conversation. However, if it's part of a riddle or logic puzzle of some kind, we might wonder if it was a trick question.

  • paint fold 111 If I say "Two cars drove into a ditch", does that imply they both drove into the same ditch?
  • That's how we would take it in ordinary conversation.
  • However, if it's part of a riddle or logic puzzle of some kind, we might wonder if it was a trick question.
  • That might lead us to try to solve the puzzle by considering the possibility that each of two cars drove into a ditch, but it wasn't the same ditch.
  • CJ
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paint fold 111

If I say "Two cars drove into a ditch", does that imply they both drove into the same ditch?

That's how we would take it in ordinary conversation. However, if it's part of a riddle or logic puzzle of some kind, we might wonder if it was a trick question. That might lead us to try to solve the puzzle by considering the possibility that

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