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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So they help track referents, in a similar way that pronouns do. We can refer to the same entity as: a kid/this kid/Andrew/the kid/him ... but if we have more than one boy that we might be talking about, then the articles help us keep track of them. 1. "I saw Andrew this morning. A kid drove his scooter straight into the wall." 2. "I saw Andrew this morning. The kid drove his scooter straight into a wall." In #1, Andrew is NOT driving the scooter, but in #2, he could be.[/quote] Thank you. This is a good example. OP here. Seeing your example, I thought of another one, but it is still ambiguous. Mike is reckless. The kid's got issues. I do think it could go both ways though. If you said" I saw Andrew this morning. Kid drove his scooter straight into a wall." I would still assume it was Andrew.[/quote]
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