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Believer Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Not all restrictive ones will cause it to be definite

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00Please check if my assumptions are correct.02br
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00I have an apple that has been sprayed with insecticide. -- Here, it is saying that he has one such apple that has been sprayed with insecticide.02br
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00I have the apple that I bought two days that has been sprayed with insecticide. -- Here, the assumption is that he bought only one apple tw days ago and that apple has been sprayed with insecticide.02br
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00The decline in the quality of apples grown here is due to its farmers' reluctance to be flexible with available technological farming advances -- Here, the word decline is definite because it is followed with a phrase that makes it definite. 02br
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00I have an apple of the finest quality. -- Here, the assumption is that he has one apple that is the finest in quality and don't know how many there are of the finest quality. There might be tons of apples that are of the finest quality out there.02br
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00So, my contention is that not all nouns that are followed by restrictive words, phrases or clauses are definite and have to look at the context to figure that out for each situation. 0-
  

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1font 00Hello Believer,02font 02br 02br 00I have an apple that has been sprayed with insecticide. -- Here, it is saying that he has one such apple that has been sprayed with insecticide. 01font 00Yes02font 02br 02br 00I have the apple that I bought two days that has been sprayed with insecticide.

  • 1font 00Hello Believer,02font 02br 02br 00I have an apple that has been sprayed with insecticide.
  • -- Here, it is saying that he has one such apple that has been sprayed with insecticide.
  • 01font 00Yes02font 02br 02br 00I have the apple that I bought two days that has been sprayed with insecticide.
  • 01font 00This sentence is incorrect grammatically02font 02br 01font 02br 02br 00should be: I have the apple that I bought 2 days ago and that has been sprayed02br 02br 00 Here, the assumption is that he bought only one apple two days ago and that apple has been sprayed with insecticide.
  • 01font 00-- Agreed02font 02br 02br 00The decline in the quality of apples grown here is due to its farmers' (reluctance to be flexible with available technological farming advances)01font 00disinclination to change with the times02font 00 -- Here, the word decline is definite because it is followed with a phrase that makes it definite.
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1font00Hello Believer,02font02br
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00I have an apple that has been sprayed with insecticide. -- Here, it is saying that he has one such apple that has been sprayed with insecticide. 01font00Yes02font02br
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00I have the apple that I bought two days that has been sprayed with

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