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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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a third option?
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00 I was watching a movie and a character in the movie used this phrase, "a third option." 02 br
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00 Is it used as a valid phrase, it seems to me the phrase "the third option" might be structually more appropriate in conveying the desired meaning. 02 br
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01 i 00 I have a third option 02 i 00 . (How many third options are there? ONE. No need to double define the singularity of a perfectly singular-meaning noun. Right?) 02 br
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00 Why not, 01 i 00 I have the third option 02 i 00 . 0-
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00 I was watching a movie and a character in the movie used this phrase, "a third option." 02 br
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00 Is it used as a valid phrase, it seems to me the phrase "the third option" might be structually more appropriate in conveying the desired meaning. 02 br
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01 i 00 I have a third option 02 i 00 . (How many third options are there? ONE. No need to double define the singularity of a perfectly singular-meaning noun. Right?) 02 br
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00 Why not, 01 i 00 I have the third option 02 i 00 . 0-
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0 No, because there are three options in total. They were discussing options one and two and one of them thought "ah ha! ".
- 0 No, because there are three options in total.
- They were discussing options one and two and one of them thought "ah ha!
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- Perhaps there will be a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh etc option available to them until they find their solution.
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0 No, because there are three options in total. They were discussing options one and two and one of them thought "ah ha! There is a third option!". If you said 'the third option' it would mean that that option was always clearly there or had already been mentioned.Perhaps there will be a fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh etc option available to them until they find their solution. But perhaps there a
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