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Usage of minority and majority Literature remains the interest of a minority and the majority has chosen to ignore those aspects of language which , at school they were told to value highly
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Teacher Re: Usage of minority and majority What is not clear to you?
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Threadstarter / Original Poster Re: Usage of minority and majority 
Originally Posted by Bennevis 
I am not sure why 'a' is used before minority and why 'the' is used before majority.
- 21-Sep-2011, 11:15 #4
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Teacher Re: Usage of minority and majority Literature remains the interest of a minority, and the majority has chosen to ignore those aspects of language which at school they were told to value highly. Originally Posted by nathesh2011
Punctuation does make it more clear.
a minority - we don't know anything about those people.
the majority - the rest of those whose opinion is considered.
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