Grunt4019@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 19 天前Why do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down110
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareWhy do we say, "when I look in the mirror" instead of "when I look in a mirror?"Grunt4019@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 19 天前message-square47fedilink
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down11·18 天前https://speakenglishbyyourself.com/articles-a-an-the/
minus-squareGrunt4019@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·18 天前Yes I know this, the reason that I asked this question is because it is a departure from the rules laid out here. Oftentimes we say “the mirror” even though we are not referring to any specific mirror.
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down17·18 天前then the answer is ‘oftentimes youre wrong’
minus-squarecan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·18 天前You never said or heard “look in the mirror”? Because it’s not wrong.
minus-squareMachindo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 天前Thanks for this. The rules it describes were what I was thinking but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
https://speakenglishbyyourself.com/articles-a-an-the/
Yes I know this, the reason that I asked this question is because it is a departure from the rules laid out here. Oftentimes we say “the mirror” even though we are not referring to any specific mirror.
then the answer is ‘oftentimes youre wrong’
You never said or heard “look in the mirror”? Because it’s not wrong.
Thanks for this. The rules it describes were what I was thinking but I couldn’t put my finger on it.