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14 avril 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pupo.5563
- isbn: 9782840162049
- eisbn: 9791036547539
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Robin Lambert, « Where do you use ‘the’? », Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, ID : 10.4000/books.pupo.5563
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1) Particular and general The fundamental difference is between the particular and the general. Using ‘the’ gives the idea of something particular or precise. Using ‘a/an’ gives the idea of something general. When there is only one of something or someone, then it is automatically particular. For example, the world, the sun, the moon, the Queen of Sweden, the President of Mexico. Logically, when a noun is plural, it cannot be particular and unique, so it does not take ‘the’....