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Reegis Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Mark is a dashing young man and all [the] girls are attracted to him.

Good evening,

how would you interpret the difference between the two sentences below?

1) Mark is a dashing young man and all girls are attracted to him.
2) Mark is a dashing young man and all the girls are attracted to him.
  

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Reegis difference 2) is the native speaker's version. CJ

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  • Reegis difference 2) is the native speaker's version.
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Reegisdifference
2) is the native speaker's version.

CJ
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Now you took me by surprise:) Does it mean that 1) is not correct or that it 'only' does not sound natural?
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The first sounds unnatural.
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Mark is a dashing young man so all girls are attracted to him...this is correct because....
before plural nouns we omit THE article...
example : Birds fly in the sky ....correct
The birds fly in the sky.... wrong

The animals cannot speak.... wrong
Animals cannot speak.... correct...
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Your logic is OK, Rathul Roy, but the fact is that most native speakers would sau 'all the girls' in tha sentemce, and find 'all girls'.
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Hmmm, one idea came to my mind:

Maybe the in all the girls implicitly implies all the girls that live in his area or all the girls that he meets? I mean that it might be something that narrows down the population of girls.

The phrase all girls would of course literally mean all girls that live on Earth, which of course cannot be observed...
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That seems reasonable.
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