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Old 12-Nov-2007, 03:33
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Default Re: with dark hair, with the dark hair
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Originally Posted by joham View Post
EXPLORING GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT (by Ronald Carter, Rebecca Hughes and Michael McCarthy), Unit 22:
The girl with the brown eyes and dark hair, I really like her.
That boy with the dark, curly hair, is he a friend of yours?
The girl with brown hair and glasses, is she his sister?

I just don't know why the article "the" is used before "dark eyes/hair" since the preposition "with" means "having". Could you please tell me how to determine whether we need the "the" in such a situation?
Didn't R, R & M mention anything about this in Unit 22, Joham?

Here you have a choice, so there really is no 'rule' to follow. Using 'the' is maybe just a wee bit more specific, more pointed in the same way that,

"That boy" is more pointed than "The boy" and yet we can use both in this situation, right?
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