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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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help me with article choosing please

On ... bright January morning ... telephone kept ringing in my office.

i believe the telephone kept ringing
but

no idea about on...bright

Any idea please?
  

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On . a bright January morning the telephone kept ringing in my office.

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On .a bright January morning the telephone kept ringing in my office.
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Anonymousno idea about on...bright
There are 31 mornings to choose from in January, so you don't know which morning it was. If you don't know which, you can't use "the". The only other choice with a singular noun is "a/an".

Since it says "in the office", we know which phone is was. It was the phone in that office. Therefore, we use "t
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Thank you very much for the detailed answer))
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