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What is the Is acting like in this sentence? The class is sitting quietly.
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Anonymous What is " the " Is acting like in this sentence? Grammatically, 'the' is called a determiner. It's also called the definite article.
- Anonymous What is " the " Is acting like in this sentence?
- Grammatically, 'the' is called a determiner.
- It's also called the definite article.
- Semantically, 'the' indicates that the speaker wishes to characterize 'class' as a particular class that the listener will understand to be that particular class and no other.
- Perhaps that class has been mentioned already in the conversation that preceded the utterance of this statement.
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AnonymousWhat is "the"Grammatically, 'the' is called a determiner. It's also called the definite article.Isacting like in this sentence?
Semantically, 'the' indicates that the speaker wishes to characterize 'class' as a particular class that the listener will unders
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