Timeline for Why do we need "THE" in this sentence?
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 10:39 | vote | accept | Gamal Thomas | ||
| Dec 3, 2016 at 17:04 | comment | added | JeremyDouglass | In your example "the" makes no difference, because a class is clearly being discussed in either case. In other examples, with 'the' may indicate "members of this species, in general" and without the: some specific animals, not all. "The eagle builds nests in high places." (Species, in general.) "On the western plains eagles build ground nests." (Some do, these specific ones do, not all, not in general.) | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 13:12 | comment | added | Gamal Thomas | Thank you for your comment. But let me check this please: Basically, you want to say that the sentence with "the" speaks about a class different from other classes while the sentence "without the" speaks about all the moles with a general idea. Is that right ? | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 8:35 | history | answered | JeremyDouglass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |