Timeline for a/the girl living next door
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| Apr 11, 2019 at 22:32 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 12, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | TrevorD | "a girl living next door" implies there is more than one girl living next door. "the girl living next door" implies there is only one girl living next door. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 14:33 | comment | added | Fuzz | Let me specify the situation: You and I are having a casual conversation. We’re both familiar with the brothers, but you haven’t heard of the girl yet. So in the situation I feel obliged to use “a girl”. On the other hand, I know that there is only one girl living next girl and the brothers fell in love with that only, specific girl, which makes me consider using “the girl”. With all that said, I’m personally inclined to “a”, but the original sentence that is taken from a book actually goes with “the”. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 14:15 | answer | added | Roger | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 13:38 | history | asked | Fuzz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |