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The definite article ('the') specifies. Residents of Smallville speak Latin - an unspecified number of residents greater than one can speak Latin. The residents of Smallville speak Latin - all of …

We use a definite article ('the') (1) When the noun, singular or plural, proper or not, is specific, not arbitrary, and not new to the reader. The hat on my head, the car in the garage, the meat on th …

I wonder if to refer to the economy as a whole I could say This study focuses on the transformation of economy. You cannot leave out 'the' if you are referring to 'the economy as a whole', a …

You can use movement of nouns and possessives to eliminate all but one of the occurrences of 'of the' from this: "among the rights of the undergrads of the University of the Basque Country")... Among …

Your initial sentence is correct, as long as those are the only two topics that you love: Both Earth's and human health are the topics I love. If they are two topics that you love, but there are oth …

The definite article could be used if we are sure that all of the residents started to panic; the definite article would be omitted if we are not sure, or we know that only some residents started to p …

All three are natural and acceptable English. You could also say "he does play baseball games with us occasionally".

The definite article, as its name suggests, makes things specific. "The study was performed during the two days following leakage". - the study was performed during two particular days, those immedi …

if you are talking about the actual cats and dogs that you currently have, and the composition of your pet collection is (reasonably) constant, you can use the definite article, as you suggest, to tal …

We usually talk about the bill for something. Otherwise, your interpretations are correct. We would use the definite article ('the') for the only bill, and the indefinite article ('a') for a bill whic …

If you are talking about one specific payment for your services, you would use the definite article 'the'. We use a definite article when we are talking about one single specific thing. I'd like to k …

This is conversational sarcasm. Everything after 'the' could be placed in quotation marks, and is a sarcastic interpretation of the first speaker's grand sounding words. Webby: Fishing,... The noble …

In a formal context, you would write "the chances are that you are going to gain the weight back". Articles and conjunctions are often omitted in informal speech and writing, especially with set phras …

An article is not required when the noun is the name of a status. James Venable, descendant of the man who... Peter Smith, son of John Smith, London, capital of the United Kingdom, Rover, winner of th …

"Waiting for remote server", "Program exited" Messages from computer programs/applications are very often written as fragments. In formal writing we would see "The application is waiting for the …