A/the language?
Hi, everyone.
Could you tell me what's the difference in meaning between the two sentences?
Please, stop writing in the language which is no longer in existence.
Please, stop writing in a language which is no longer in existence.
Thanks!
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I'm not that good in using articles overall, especially "the", but I think I can I understand these examples above. *Regarding the first one: the speaker is referring to a specific language that he and the listener know what it is. " When you use "the" in the above sentence, it means you were ONLY referring to the Hieroglyphic language and I already would know that fact due to the use of "the" before "language".
- I'm not that good in using articles overall, especially "the", but I think I can I understand these examples above.
- *Regarding the first one: the speaker is referring to a specific language that he and the listener know what it is.
- " When you use "the" in the above sentence, it means you were ONLY referring to the Hieroglyphic language and I already would know that fact due to the use of "the" before "language".
- " The speaker is referring to ALL languages that are no longer in existence including Hieroglyphic , as long as it's no longer in existence, it will be included, there is no a specific language like the first case.
- Don't depend on my answer, though.
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I'm not that good in using articles overall, especially "the", but I think I can I understand these examples above.
*Regarding the first one:
the speaker is referring to a specific language that he and the listener know what it is.
Let's suppose that I wrote in Hieroglyphic language, you could use this sentence and say:
"Please,
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