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Bamtori Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
THE/A
" A dying of an old self and the rebirth of a new"
Teachers, please help me with this. After studying how to use the articles, I still don't completely understand where I should use the definite article "the" and where the indefinite one "a".
In the above sentence, the "dying" and the "rebirth" are both a non-count abstract noun, but I don't get why "a" was used before the dying and "the" was used before the rebirth.
I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks.
Teachers, please help me with this. After studying how to use the articles, I still don't completely understand where I should use the definite article "the" and where the indefinite one "a".
In the above sentence, the "dying" and the "rebirth" are both a non-count abstract noun, but I don't get why "a" was used before the dying and "the" was used before the rebirth.
I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks.
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I think the author wants to emphasize: a dying: one of the multiple ways for the old self to die the rebirth: the unique process of rebirth Perhaps he wants to emphasize that renewal is more important than death. It's a matter of style, I feel, here, not rules.
- I think the author wants to emphasize: a dying: one of the multiple ways for the old self to die the rebirth: the unique process of rebirth Perhaps he wants to emphasize that renewal is more important than death.
- It's a matter of style, I feel, here, not rules.
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I think the author wants to emphasize:
a dying: one of the multiple ways for the old self to die
the rebirth: the unique process of rebirth
Perhaps he wants to emphasize that renewal is more important than death.
It's a matter of style, I feel, here, not rules.
a dying: one of the multiple ways for the old self to die
the rebirth: the unique process of rebirth
Perhaps he wants to emphasize that renewal is more important than death.
It's a matter of style, I feel, here, not rules.
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Thank you so much, Marius! That's been a great help.
Though, I have one more question for you. It's also about the articles. Please, look at the sentence below:
" An earthquake is a shaking of the ground casued by the sudden breaking and shifting of large sections of the earth's rocky other shell."
Though, I have one more question for you. It's also about the articles. Please, look at the sentence below:
" An earthquake is a shaking of the ground casued by the sudden breaking and shifting of large sections of the earth's rocky other shell."
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Hi, I am trying to confirm my own reasoning as much as trying to throw in my own two cents. I hope you will understand.
I would interprete the whole situation like this:
Let us be reminded that this is a definition.
An earthquake is a (instance or kind) shaking of the ground caused by the (in part due to the following phrase 'of large sections of the rocky other shell
I would interprete the whole situation like this:
Let us be reminded that this is a definition.
An earthquake is a (instance or kind) shaking of the ground caused by the (in part due to the following phrase 'of large sections of the rocky other shell
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