Definite Article Quotes

#1. The major distinction between the indefinite article, a, and the definite article, the.6 When a character makes his first appearance on stage, he is introduced with a. When we are subsequently told about him, we already know who he is, and he is mentioned with the:

Steven Pinker

#2. did something funny with the definite article.

Mary-Kay Wilmers

#3. Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would ... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#4. The letters a and l are the most common in Arabic, partly because of the definite article al-, whereas the letter j appears only a tenth as frequently.

Simon Singh

#5. It is obvious that 'Algiz' is a pure Semitic word. The presence of the definite article is one indication. Another sign for us lies in its shared etymology with the name of 'Giza' - the location of the Scales/Balance whose Semitic word is derived from that very same etymology.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#6. Latin illa became, with some erosion of sounds into la, the definite article

John McWhorter

#7. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Tom Robbins

#9. I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme? ...

John Geddes

#10. It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career.

Rudy Giuliani

#11. Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.

Meir Soloveichik

#12. The final two issues of the Englehart/Rogers/Austin collaboration, Detective Comics #475 and #476, are now esteemed alongside the greatest Batman stories ever created and would provide the seed for Tim Burton's 1989 feature film. In

Glen Weldon