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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

There is a... or there is the...?

I understood.

I take it that the usage of "a/the" in existential clauses in a situation like your example depends on whether or not the speaker assumes that the listener knows.

Thank you.

  

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anonymous I take it that the usage of "a/the" in existential clauses in a situation like your example depends on whether or not the speaker assumes that the listener knows. Exactly. CJ

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  • anonymous I take it that the usage of "a/the" in existential clauses in a situation like your example depends on whether or not the speaker assumes that the listener knows.
  • Exactly.
  • CJ
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anonymous

I take it that the usage of "a/the" in existential clauses in a situation like your example depends on whether or not the speaker assumes that the listener knows.

Exactly.

CJ

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