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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Hi
when referencing "road" , if the sentence is:

I looked out of a window. I saw a man crossing "a"/ or "the" road? Since I hadn't mentioned the road before, should I be using "a"?

The answer to this is "the"

Hope you can explain
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These days, unless you're hiking in the wilderness, you're usually close to a road. " But unless you're "lost," you usually have a pretty good idea of where the closest road is. " If you're looking out the window, the road you see will most likely be the road you came on.

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  • These days, unless you're hiking in the wilderness, you're usually close to a road.
  • " But unless you're "lost," you usually have a pretty good idea of where the closest road is.
  • " If you're looking out the window, the road you see will most likely be the road you came on.
  • Of course you can make up contrary scenarios.
  • You've been drugged and kidnapped.
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These days, unless you're hiking in the wilderness, you're usually close to a road.
If you're completely lost in the woods, and you meet a stranger, you might ask him, "Do you know if there's a road near here?"

But unless you're "lost," you usually have a pretty good idea of where the closest road is.

If you don't specify, "the freeway/the expressway, the road to the beach
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