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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Article a/the

What variant is correct: 'to wait a train' or 'to wait the train'? What kind of article should we use?
  

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Neither is right, sorry. You can use these forms: I wait for the 7:30 train every morning. We waited for a train , but none came until after noon.

— Mister Micawber

  • Neither is right, sorry.
  • You can use these forms: I wait for the 7:30 train every morning.
  • We waited for a train , but none came until after noon.
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Neither is right, sorry. You can use these forms:

I wait for the 7:30 train every morning.
We waited for a train, but none came until after noon.
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Hi,

Usually, it is to wait for a / the bus, to wait for a / the train, etc. It depends on context.

Regards
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I see. I made a mistake having omitted 'for'. But the main difficulty for me is the context in which we should use 'a' or 'the'. Could you give more examples and explain them a little?
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It is the same usage as for the articles generally. 'The' refers to a specific or habitual or unique train; 'a' refers to one unspecified train among several of them.
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