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Believer Posted 19 years ago
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Article or no article

0I have a sentence that seems to be followed with a restrictive clause, would you say there is no need for an article because the underlined part is in effect defining the noun 'apples'. Defining so no need to make it definite?02br
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00I have 01u00apples that have not been sprayed with insectside02u00.0-
  

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10I have a sentence that seems to be followed with a restrictive clause, would you say there is no need for an article because the underlined part is in effect defining the noun 'apples'. Defining so no need to make it definite?12br
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10I have 11u10apples that have not
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0 «I have a sentence that seems to be followed with a restrictive clause...»02br
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00It is descriptive. If it was singular, indefinite article would be used:02br
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00«I have an apple that has not been sprayed with insectside.» 0-
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0 Believer:02br
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00By the way, look at the sentence starting your first post in the thread:02br
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00«I have a sentence that seems to be followed with a restrictive clause»02br
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00You wrote it correctly through intuition because you probably were focused on the question itself not on this sentence. But it is the same structure
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0Hi, Ant_22202br
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00Yes, I do see that the two sentences do seem to have the same sentential structure.02br
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00As to the question of a clause being restrictive or non-restrictive, it is the content and depend upon whether the clause is essential to the overall meaning of the sentence, I think.02br
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00As to both sentences, th
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