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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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up the mountain?

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00What is the difference between the two sentences below? Let's pretend that I am telling what I did yesterday.02br
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01i00I went up the mountain.02i02br
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01i00I went up a mountain.02i0-
  

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1i00I went up 01u00the02u00 mountain.02i02br
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00You went up a 01u00particular02u00 mountain, perhaps one that is nearby or well known.02br
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01i00I went up 01u00a02u00 mountain.02i02br
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00You went up a mountain, but I have no id
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0 When you say 01i00I went up the mountain02i00 you assume that I know which mountain you went up. (Maybe we have spoken about that mountain before. Maybe that mountain is quite visible to both of us at the time you speak.) You do not expect me to respond, "Which mountain?".02br
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00 When you say 01i00I went up a mountain02i
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