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Reegis Posted 10 years ago
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Articles: The hunters shot an/the elk.
Hello,
I continue to learn English with my program and recently has encountered the sentence:
The hunters shot the elk.
As it happens in such programs, it is of course out of context and I wonder when can I say the elk instead if an elk.
- I can imagine that there is some famous elk and the hunters finally caught him, or there is only one elk in the forest, which might suggest using the elk.
- But normally, when the hunters come back from hunting somebody would say The hunters shot an elk.
Am I right?
I continue to learn English with my program and recently has encountered the sentence:
The hunters shot the elk.
As it happens in such programs, it is of course out of context and I wonder when can I say the elk instead if an elk.
- I can imagine that there is some famous elk and the hunters finally caught him, or there is only one elk in the forest, which might suggest using the elk.
- But normally, when the hunters come back from hunting somebody would say The hunters shot an elk.
Am I right?
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Reegis- I can imagine that there is some famous elk and the hunters finally caught him, or there is only one elk in the forest, which might suggest using the elk.You can use the elk if you are referring to one in particular that has already been mentioned. Whether it is famous or the only one in a situation is not the point.
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Yep, good point. I forgot about this possibility because when I learn it looks like this in my program:
Sentence in Polish: ....
Sentence in English: ?
So there is really no context or anything related to some past events or sentences. Yet I guess it is this case - the author probably took this sentence from some story, thus the before elk...
Sentence in Polish: ....
Sentence in English: ?
So there is really no context or anything related to some past events or sentences. Yet I guess it is this case - the author probably took this sentence from some story, thus the before elk...
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