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Lucas21c Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

'a sea' vs 'the sea'

Could you tell me which article is right between 'a' and 'the' in this sentence, "She had never seen [a/the] sea before she move to San Francisco?"
  

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It's colloquial to say 'She had never seen the sea before ...'
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Could you tell me what you mean by the 'colloquial'? Do you mean 'a sea' sounds formal?
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I would say that "the sea" is idiomatic rather than colloquial. It can be used without any problem in formal English.
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