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That said, I still stand by the specific example of "the steward" in post 5 as a correct usage, as that's what he's called in-universe. | That said, I still stand by the specific example of "the steward" in post 5 as a correct usage, as that's what he's called in-universe. | ||
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But in the case of something not unique — like a miner — you clearly wouldn't use a definite article. SOTO is, in my view, grammatically wrong above when he says that he'll just use ''the'' … whenever. No, you don't do that. ''Most'' of the time when someone is identified by a job — waitress, miner, secretary — you're obliged to use ''a'', unless it can be established there's only one of that type of worker in a particular situation. There might only be one secretary in a small firm, for instance, or one teacher in a frontier school. You don't use the definite article just because that's the only one of that type of worker that we meet in a story, because using the definite article implies something that's simply not true. | But in the case of something not unique — like a miner — you clearly wouldn't use a definite article. SOTO is, in my view, grammatically wrong above when he says that he'll just use ''the'' … whenever. No, you don't do that. ''Most'' of the time when someone is identified by a job — waitress, miner, secretary — you're obliged to use ''a'', unless it can be established there's only one of that type of worker in a particular situation. There might only be one secretary in a small firm, for instance, or one teacher in a frontier school. You don't use the definite article just because that's the only one of that type of worker that we meet in a story, because using the definite article implies something that's simply not true. | ||
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