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Jigneshbharati Posted 5 years ago
Grammar
The kitchen
Mum and dad cooked dinner and cleaned the kitchen. I saw this sentence as an example of a simple sentence on YouTube.
Why do they use a definite article. "the" before "kitchen". What makes the reference specific in the context?
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Jigneshbharati Mum and dad cooked dinner and cleaned a kitchen. The above sentence is of course grammatical, but very strange as mum and dad didn't clean the kitchen where they had cooked dinner. CB
- Jigneshbharati Mum and dad cooked dinner and cleaned a kitchen.
- The above sentence is of course grammatical, but very strange as mum and dad didn't clean the kitchen where they had cooked dinner.
- CB
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JigneshbharatiMum and dad cooked dinner and cleaned a kitchen.
The above sentence is of course grammatical, but very strange as mum and dad didn't clean the kitchen where they had cooked dinner.
CB
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