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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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Hi friends, this question is unresolved for me...

Let's say you were invited to a friend's//coworker's cottage for the weekend. I ask you what you're doing this weekend. Would you say:

1. I am going to a cottage.

2. I am going to the cottage.

I hear native speakers use "the" all the time. But does "the" not suggest that you own the cottage? On the other hand, I never heard "a cottage" by native speakers.

What's your opinion?

  

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Yes. the cottage sounds it is my cottage. a cottage sounds like it is not my cottage.

— Clive

  • Yes.
  • the cottage sounds it is my cottage.
  • a cottage sounds like it is not my cottage.
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Yes.

the cottage sounds it is my cottage.

a cottage sounds like it is not my cottage.

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