Sentence examples for use of definite from inspiring English sources

Its grammar is also similar to that of the other modern Romance languages, showing agreement of adjectives and nouns, the use of definite and indefinite articles, loss of noun declension for case, two genders (masculine and feminine), and an elaborate system of perfect and progressive tenses for the verb.

For the reasons stated, we concluded that there is no evidence so far, to support the use of definite deprivation for such patients, nor accurate analyses of possible long-term toxicity.

Furthermore, Campbell et al. and Fox et al. conducted studies using ACB scale and found that the use of definite anticholinergics increased the risk of cognitive impairment among older people [ 32, 33].

Set in Buffalo, the comedy presses its provincialism way too hard, leaning on exaggeratedly square, out-of-it diction best exemplified by the haphazard uses of definite articles — "the Alzheimer's," "the smack" — that Jon Stewart wore out some time ago.

(It is, for example, analogous in many ways to discussions about the significance of referential uses of definite descriptions).

It would not be fruitful to suggest that definite determiners always play the role of supplying genitive case or some form of possessive case across all languages having such determiners, nor even across all uses of definite determiners in English.

More controversially, Donnellan (1966) argued that in the case of 'referential' uses of definite descriptions, the reference of the description, rather than the descriptive condition, is a constituent of the proposition expressed.

The arguments they employ against their contextualist opponents bear a striking resemblance to those Kripke employed against Donnellan's content-based treatment of the distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions.

Also, Kripke observed that these two uses of definite descriptions are really just subspecies of the general distinction between what is meant (speaker's reference in Kripke's terminology) and what is literally said (semantic reference) and not at all unique to descriptions.

Note the use of the definite article, and the implied annexation of an entire county's accommodation options.

The problem is not with the word "special", but with the use of the definite article, as in "the special relationship".My suggested rebrand is "a special relationship".