Timeline for ".. getting away to the beach with the family" - why not "..to a beach with the family"?
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| Feb 13, 2015 at 5:24 | answer | added | Scott - Слава Україні | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 21:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/565984165234241536 | ||
| Feb 12, 2015 at 19:47 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | This is not a specific beach. Some words routinely get a "the", no matter if a specific place is in mind or not, no matter if it's been mentioned previously or not: I am going to the movies; she is going to the opera; Eddie is going to the beach; Maureen went to the hospital. Related. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 18:40 | vote | accept | jihoon | ||
| Feb 12, 2015 at 18:27 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | @jihoon It's the same in other common expressions, e.g. "in the air", "in the club", "in the wrong". (I believe that you've probably heard most of them.) | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | M.A.R. | @CopperKettle I too think there the talk is about a specific beach. I think the "beach" shouldn't necessarily be mentioned by the author before to give it a definite article. However, that's a feeling and I have no clue why. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:09 | answer | added | WhatRoughBeast | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:08 | answer | added | Matthew W | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:00 | history | edited | CowperKettle |
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:55 | comment | added | CowperKettle | @Catija - but in the answer I've hyperlinked above, the guy says that "..but it could also mean you went to one or a number of different beaches as a regular activity last summer". (I went to the beach last summer.) | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:51 | comment | added | Catija | This is actually similar to this question: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/49324/… In short, they're thinking about a specific beach when they talk about it, so the is appropriate. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:51 | comment | added | CowperKettle | here's one mention of "the beach" at ELU. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:49 | history | edited | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:47 | history | edited | jihoon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:47 | comment | added | jihoon | It is me that put the quotation marks.@CopperKettle I just modified | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:42 | history | asked | jihoon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |