I would like to describe one picture and I want to say. There are two people in the picture. The woman (should I use here the) is lying in the bed (should I use here the) Can I also say: They are in a ward or schould I say in the ward? I don;t mean any particular ward.
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There are two people in the picture, a woman lying in a bed and ...???.... They are in a hospital ward. CJ
— CalifJim
There are two people in the picture, a woman lying in a bed and ...???....
They are in a hospital ward.
CJ
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What is the thing she is lying in? It's a bed. It's not a car. You don't call it a chair. You call it a bed. So she's lying in a bed. She's lying in a thing you call a bed.
She is also lying in the bed. Which bed? The bed that is in the picture. That bed. That bed in the picture is the bed that she is lying in.