Definite Article

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"The Communist parties and laboring people of the bourgeois countries."
"The Communist parties and [the] laboring people of the bourgeois countries."

What difference does the [the] in the second sentence make? Can the definite article always be omitted in this position of a sentence?

Thank you.

Aerohn · Accepted Answer

A definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener. It may be something that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be something uniquely specified. The definite article in English, for both singular and plural nouns, is the.
The children know the fastest way home.
The sentence above refers to specific children and a specific way home; it contrasts with the much more general observation that:
Children know the fastest way home.
The latter sentence refers to children in general, perhaps all or most of them.

~Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Dimsumexpress · Answer

SuperESL"The Communist parties and laboring people of the bourgeois countries.""The Communist parties and [the] laboring people of the bourgeois countries."What difference does the [the] in the second sentence make? Can the definite article always be omitted in this position of a sentence?Thank you.

First, your examples are not real sentences. They are fragments.
In a real sentence, there are two unique parties and a definite article should be used for each party: "The Communist parties and The Labor

people".

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