Timeline for Confusing examples of articles usage
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| Aug 9, 2018 at 21:02 | comment | added | JeremyC | @SergeyZykov Actually the author could indeed have written "the well-known television soap opera" because the subsequent reference to the "fictitious square" makes it quite clear what soap opera he is talking about. By the way, I am not using 'should' but 'could'. And it is not my reasoning, with which you are of course at liberty to disagree, but my observation of how the language is used by educated native speakers. If what such people write does not conform with what you have been told are rules, then so much the worse for the rules! | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 20:21 | comment | added | zesy | I am not really sure whether I can agree with your line of reasoning. It seems to me that by the same token you can replace all indefinite articles in the language with definite ones. Indeed, e.g. in my first sentence according to your logic the author should have written "the well-known television soap opera" because after all the author knows what opera is being discussed in the article of the tabloid. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 15:43 | history | answered | JeremyC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |