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Aramahosi Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Why is a definite article used?
"Bioy Casares had had dinner with me that evening and we became lengthily engaged in a vast polemic concerning the composition of a novel in the first person, whose narrator would omit or disfigure the facts and indulge in various contradictions which would permit a few readers - very few readers - to perceive an atrocious or banal reality"
"Fact" this word hasn't been mentioned yet but it is added to the word. Would you tell me the reason why that is like this?
The sentence is quoted from http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf
"Fact" this word hasn't been mentioned yet but it is added to the word. Would you tell me the reason why that is like this?
The sentence is quoted from http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf
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hasn't been mentioned yet It doesn't need to be mentioned. It can come from the context, or general understanding. It is also the way we collocate this concept.
- hasn't been mentioned yet It doesn't need to be mentioned.
- It can come from the context, or general understanding.
- It is also the way we collocate this concept.
- Let me tell you about the facts of life .
- You know them without me telling you right?
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hasn't been mentioned yet
It doesn't need to be mentioned. It can come from the context, or general understanding.
It is also the way we collocate this concept.
Let me tell you about the
It doesn't need to be mentioned. It can come from the context, or general understanding.
It is also the way we collocate this concept.
Let me tell you about the
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aramahosi... a novel in the first person, whose narrator would omit or disfigure the facts and indulge in various contradictions ..."the" is used because the author believes you already know which facts he is talking about. He is not talking about any or all facts in the world. He is only talking about the facts within
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