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Desireandlove Posted 18 years ago
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00I have a sentence here, and need someone to explain what "By the" means.02br
00"They were seduced into buying the washing machine by the offer of a free flight to the United States." 0-
  

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0 Essentially it means "because of the offer", if that lends any help.0-
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0The word "the" in your example is not doing anything special. It is just "the" as you have always known it, the definite article, and needs no explaining.02br
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00"By" is a word that introduces who (or what) did something. We can use "by" when we want to reverse the order of the subject and object.02br
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00This sentence was written 00by00 th
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