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ðə Meanings
determiner
- denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge.
Example: what's the matter?
- used to point forward to a following qualifying or defining clause or phrase.
Example: the fuss that he made of her
- used to make a generalized reference to something rather than identifying a particular instance.
Example: he taught himself to play the violin
- enough of (a particular thing).
Example: he hoped to publish monthly, if only he could find the money
- (pronounced stressing ‘the’) used to indicate that someone or something is the best known or most important of that name or type.
Example: he was the hot young piano prospect in jazz
- used adverbially with comparatives to indicate how one amount or degree of something varies in relation to another.
Example: the more she thought about it, the more devastating it became
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