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New Hope Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
article "the"
Do we need to put "the" before "big" in the second sentence?
Pinky, the tiny fish, lives in the sea with her small friends. The big sea animals make fun of them.
Pinky, the tiny fish, lives in the sea with her small friends. The big sea animals make fun of them.
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Yes.
- Yes.
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New Hope Do we need to put "the" before "big" in the second sentence?Pinky, the tiny fish, lives in the sea with her small friends. The big sea animals make fun of them.Your first sentence is "Pinky, the tiny fish, lives in the sea with her small friends." If "The" is removed from the second sentence, it reads "Big sea animals make fun of them."
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It could be correct... "The big sea animals" and "Big sea animals" both refer to collectivities, however, differ in narrative. I prefer "Big sea animals make fun of them."
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New Hope Do we need to put "the" before "big" in the second sentence?Pinky, the tiny fish, lives in the sea with her small friends. The big sea animals make fun of them.It's grammatically correct with or without "the". Plural nouns do not require an article.
If you use 'the', the reader is supposed to understand that you are referring to some partic
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