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Victork Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

The road / a road

A question for native speakers.

He walked out of the park and crossed the road.
He walked out of the park and crossed a road.

The context is a city. I think "the" is fine - people understand that it's a city and there are roads in the city, and there had to be only one road - the road that was there.

"A" road might be better where one would not expect it. For example,
He walked out of the forest and came upon a road.
Here a road is distinguished.

Do I understand it correctly?
  

Top answer

Yes.

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PS Assume that this road is being mentioned for the first time in the examples above.
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victorkHe walked out of the park
You don't need "of".
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KhoshtipManDid you know GPY, if we reverse the name "GPY" it will generate "YPG" which is a Kurdish semi-army that is at the front line of the war against ISIS terrorists?
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Anonymous victorkHe walked out of the parkYou don't need "of".
"He walked out the park" sounds horrible to me.
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GPY"He walked out the park" sounds horrible to me.
It depends on what someone is used to hearing. Adding "of" seems odd to me but, it's common in such contexts, in American English.
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GPY"He walked out the park" sounds horrible to me.
To me as well.
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you don't need "of".
Yo do if you want to sound like a native English speaker!
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