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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
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Crazy world
We live in a crazy world.
We live in the crazy world.
Which article is the correct (a or the) in "crazy world" and why?
I am confused because I thought the noun "world " is unique like other nouns:moon, sun etc
We live in the crazy world.
Which article is the correct (a or the) in "crazy world" and why?
I am confused because I thought the noun "world " is unique like other nouns:moon, sun etc
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Jigneshbharati I thought the noun "world " is unique like other nouns:moon, sun etc No, not in this context. "world" can mean any number of imagined worlds. Of the number of worlds we can imagine, we can say that one of these worlds (" a world") is a crazy world .
- Jigneshbharati I thought the noun "world " is unique like other nouns:moon, sun etc No, not in this context.
- "world" can mean any number of imagined worlds.
- Of the number of worlds we can imagine, we can say that one of these worlds (" a world") is a crazy world .
- To say " the crazy world" implies that we have been talking about several kinds of worlds that we can imagine, but we wish to speak only of the world that is the crazy one.
- Thus, There's a beautiful world, an ugly world, a rational world, and a crazy world.
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JigneshbharatiI thought the noun "world " is unique like other nouns:moon, sun etc
No, not in this context. "world" can mean any number of imagined worlds. Of the number of worlds we can imagine, we can say that one of these worlds ("a world") is a crazy world.
To say "the crazy world" implies that we have been talking ab
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