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What is the Is acting like in this sentence? The class is sitting quietly.
  

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Anonymous What is " the " Is acting like in this sentence? Grammatically, 'the' is called a determiner. It's also called the definite article.

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AnonymousWhat is "the" Is acting like in this sentence?
Grammatically, 'the' is called a determiner. It's also called the definite article.

Semantically, 'the' indicates that the speaker wishes to characterize 'class' as a particular class that the listener will unders