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  1. I am going to share three responsibilities of our class monitor.

  2. I am going to share the three responsibilities of our class monitor.

Which of the two above conveys a message that "there are only three responsibilities of our class monitor and I am going to share these" and "there are many responsibilities of our class monitor but I am only going to share three"

And what about the this:

  1. I am going to share our class monitor's three responsibilities.
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I am going to share three responsibilities of our class monitor. (only three responsibilities of the many he has)

I am going to share the three responsibilities of our class monitor. (he only has three)

I am going to share our class monitor's three responsibilities.

is correct and has the meaning he only has three responsibilities. However, it sounds less common, in spoken language at least.

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  • Thank you very much, it was really helpful :)
    – Guri
    Dec 14, 2020 at 17:13
  • Does "Its three features are...." mean only three of the many it has? How to write a sentence in structure like this to mean the only three features?
    – Guri
    Dec 14, 2020 at 17:30
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    Your first example means: "The (only) three features of something". If it has more than three you say "Three of the features of something" or simply "Three features of something"
    – fev
    Dec 14, 2020 at 17:36
  • What about "Its three features are...." I am sorry to ask it again and again. I got the above structures and what they mean but I wonder what this one conveys. Say "it" here means an electronic device.
    – Guri
    Dec 14, 2020 at 17:58
  • I have already explained that: Your first example ("Its three features are...") means : "The (only) three features of something (of it)".
    – fev
    Dec 14, 2020 at 18:00

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