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Originally Posted by Lenka  In an article about members of a family I read this sentence:
She is 45 years old and teaches English and Czech in the high school.
2) Why did the narrator use definite article (in THE high school)? In the article, the school wasn't mentioned before and I believe there is not only one high school in a town. There are usually more of them - even if the town is quite small.
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I don't know why 'the' was used in this instance because there isn't enough context, Lenka.
Using 'the' tells us, one, there is only one high school or two, that the context has limited the talk to one school.
Normally to tell where one works, there is no specific reference using 'the'.
She is 45 years old and teaches English and Czech in high school.