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Reply to "Articles are completely useless in the English language, grammar police where are you to weigh in?"
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[quote=Anonymous]The topic of this thread is wrong. First, articles are not completely useless. The definite article serves to refer to a specific object, only meaningful in context. If you examine an isolated sentence, articles seem useless. They serve no purpose without surrounding context. Can you work around them? Yes. For example, you wrote, "the English language" when you could write just English. BTW, that's a curious usage for a non-native speaker attempting to be reductionist. Weigh in is another curious idiomatic usage that's generally not taught because it's a poor construct. [/quote]
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