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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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What is the difference in meaning...? 1: He is an engineer.

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02: it is in the shared knowledge of the speaker and the listener which engineer 02br 02br 001. 0-

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02: it is in the shared knowledge of the speaker and the listener which engineer 02br
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01cite10Maya212cite102: it is in the shared knowledge of the speaker and the listener which engineer 12br
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101. not in the shared knowledge....12br
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10Hi Maya,02br
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0Maya means that if you and the listener had already established who "the engineer" is (Every one of our plants has one facilities engineer on staff. Jim is the engineer at the Mayfair plant.) you can use "the." There is only one position/person that you would be applying it to.02br
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00An engineer is simply descriptive. We don't have to have had any conversations about en
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10Maya means that if you and the listener had already established who "the engineer" is (11b11u11font10Every one of our plants has one facilities engineer on staff.12font12u12b10 Jim is the engineer at the Mayfair plant.) You can use "the
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0 I just used it as a random example of a type of engineer. It's an engineer who looks after all the facilities. I could have said "one electrical engineer" or one whatever type of engineer. 0-
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