Definition:
The definite article the refers to particular nouns. (See indefinite article.)
Examples:
- "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer."
(Jessamyn West) - "Writers will happen in the best of families."
(Rita Mae Brown) - "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
(Thomas Jefferson) - "If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning."
(Carl Rogers)
Pronunciation: DEF-i-nit ART-i-kul
