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"I entered the classroom during the lesson. Students were paying attention."
Hello everybody! Please, help to clear out some particularities of the articles' usage...
"I entered the classroom during the lesson. Students were paying attention."
Here the first sentence gives enough information that there must be students there. And then I introduce them in the second sentence.
1) Is it correct usage?
2) What will be the difference from saying "the students"?
3) I understand no article can mean introducing some of the students there, but can mean all, so it's vague but acceptable, however when I mean roughly all, saying with no article as an introduction here would be unnatural.
Do I feel it right?
Please, help. Thanks!
Hello everybody! Please, help to clear out some particularities of the articles' usage...
"I entered the classroom during the lesson. Students were paying attention."
Here the first sentence gives enough information that there must be students there. And then I introduce them in the second sentence.
1) Is it correct usage?
2) What will be the difference from saying "the students"?
3) I understand no article can mean introducing some of the students there, but can mean all, so it's vague but acceptable, however when I mean roughly all, saying with no article as an introduction here would be unnatural.
Do I feel it right?
Please, help. Thanks!