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Forum: English Questions Oct 13th, 2012, 01:04 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: use the wrong word

Remember that "the" indicates shared knowledge - ie something known to both the speaker/writer and listener /reader. Here, this is the first mention of "second time", so it is not yet "known" to...
Forum: English Questions Oct 12th, 2012, 09:28 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: use the wrong word

Your argument is logical. But "the" reflects the fact that the speaker is referring to a specific word and not any of the myriad possibilities.

For example :

A : Those slices of bread are very...
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