Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
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But after all it is the leaders of "a" country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.
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"a"above the sentence was used to denote a class or group of things; not specific? If that is the case, could I change "a country" into "the country" or "countries"?
But after all it is the leaders of "a" country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.
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"a"above the sentence was used to denote a class or group of things; not specific? If that is the case, could I change "a country" into "the country" or "countries"?
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Anonymous "a"above the sentence was used to denote a class or group of things No, just any of the group. Anonymous not specific? Right.
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Anonymous"a"above the sentence was used to denote a class or group of thingsNo, just any of the group.
Anonymous not specific?Right. Any one country.
AnonymousIf that is the case, could I change "a country" into "the country"It sounds very odd without predetermination of which country.
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