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by colordrops • 4 years ago

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dificilis• 4 years ago

Most of those definitions can be reduced to a single definition:

"the" <something> = the speaker believes that enough information has been given for the listener to know which <something> is being referred to.

Examples:

"the man who hit me" - makes sense as part of a story where only man hit me. "the world" - there is only one world, so we know which one it is.

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