Subj : articles are a good subject
To   : alexander koryagin
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Mon Sep 18 2017 17:17:58

Hi! Alexander,

On 09/18/2017 03:48 PM, you wrote:

 DH>>> Thirdly (and what you really wanted to know!) the article could be
 DH>>> either "a" or "the".
 PQ>> You would have to agree that "the" is the better of the two.

 ak> Dallas said about both the/a variants. Can you explain why "the" is 
better?

He was kind of right.  Both could be used and be correct English.  But in the 
context of your three choices a native speaker would _most likely_ choose to 
use "the".  It is an unnatural act IMHO to use "a" in that example statement.

 DH>>> Isn't English great? :-)
 PQ>> So is Russian to a Russian.  It takes a special set of characters to
 PQ>> appreciate it.  ;-)

 ak> It is great to have two character sets at your disposal. For instance, I
 ak> can use both of them to write English words pronunciation. But for
 ak> Englishmen it is very inconvenient  to write it with just ASCII.

I applaud your efforts, Alexander.  I'm not sure what you mean by 
"inconvenient".  I might have said 'handicapped' from your POV.  Perhaps that 
is what you intended.

Cheers,
Paul.

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