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00Many times I see sentences that start with people of particular occupation and many times, the sentences have "the" infront and many times not. What are the linguistic implications of this separate treatment?02br
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01i00Researchers collected 8 one dollar notes.02i02br
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00Are you going to say the 2nd sentence have some previous mentioning or ante-contextual precedence to warrant the placement of "the" before the word "researchers"? 0-
  

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00Are you going to say the 2nd sentence have some previous mentioning or ante-contextual precedence to warrant the placement of "the" before the word "researchers"?12blockquote
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00Are you going to say the 2nd sentence have 11i10(has)12i10 some previous mentioning or ...? 12blockquote
10 Yes. "the" is often equivalent to "the 01i00aforementioned02i00".02br
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