Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
definite article
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00 Do you think the follwing definite articles are placed due to the fact that the situations (or context) make it definte (or clear) and that's the reason why the articles are placed? Good enough reason? I saw this on online grammar exercise that quoted permission from Mother Jones Magazine. The content was noted as in "Cold Comfort" from Mother Jones Magazine by Michael Castleman. 02 br
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00 (The previous sentences and paragraphes were spent talking about the loss of antibiotic effectiveness against common bacterial illnesses.) 02 br
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00 Your brother catches a cold that turns into a sinus infection. Hs doctor treats him with antibiotics, but the bacteria are resistant to all of them. 02 br
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00 1. Why 'the bacteria' when bacteria haven't been discussed or noted all along? It is placed since it is 'definite' (or clear??) from context? 02 br
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00 Then few sentences later it has this sentence: 02 br
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00 Far-fetched? It's not. The antibiotics crisis is real. 02 br
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00 2. Why 'the antibiotics crisis' with 'the'? The writing didn't seem to mention any explicit crisis but seemed to have been leading to that direction, so placing 'the' with 'crisis' seems reasonable? 0-
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00 Do you think the follwing definite articles are placed due to the fact that the situations (or context) make it definte (or clear) and that's the reason why the articles are placed? Good enough reason? I saw this on online grammar exercise that quoted permission from Mother Jones Magazine. The content was noted as in "Cold Comfort" from Mother Jones Magazine by Michael Castleman. 02 br
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00 (The previous sentences and paragraphes were spent talking about the loss of antibiotic effectiveness against common bacterial illnesses.) 02 br
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00 Your brother catches a cold that turns into a sinus infection. Hs doctor treats him with antibiotics, but the bacteria are resistant to all of them. 02 br
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00 1. Why 'the bacteria' when bacteria haven't been discussed or noted all along? It is placed since it is 'definite' (or clear??) from context? 02 br
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00 Then few sentences later it has this sentence: 02 br
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00 Far-fetched? It's not. The antibiotics crisis is real. 02 br
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00 2. Why 'the antibiotics crisis' with 'the'? The writing didn't seem to mention any explicit crisis but seemed to have been leading to that direction, so placing 'the' with 'crisis' seems reasonable? 0-
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0 In both cases they are discussing very specific things. 02 br
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00 Bacteria. Not all bacteria, not any old bacteria, but specifically and only the bacteria involved in your brother's cold. 02 br
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00 The crisis with antibiotics; not any other of the many crises in the world. 0-
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00 Bacteria. Not all bacteria, not any old bacteria, but specifically and only the bacteria involved in your brother's cold. 02 br
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00 The crisis with antibiotics; not any other of the many crises in the world. 0-
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01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 Why 'the bacteria' when bacteria haven't been discussed or noted all along? 12 blockquote10 They have been noted implicitly, though. The word 01 i 00 the 02 i 00 triggers the reader to find something in the situation which makes the following noun refer to something defini
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0 Thank you. 02 br
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00 If a mark of good teacher or pofessor is his/her ability to explain a complicated matter in clearly understable terms, then you seem to possess that quality. 0-
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00 If a mark of good teacher or pofessor is his/her ability to explain a complicated matter in clearly understable terms, then you seem to possess that quality. 0-
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