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Usually, the mall, the store, the gas station in a story are habitual known places for the people telling you these stories, and they are implying that. In othe
by lawsthro0532 14d ago
Usually, the mall, the store, the gas station in a story are habitual known places for the people telling you these stories, and they are implying that. In other cases, it is being used as an idiom that imply something habitual, common, run of the mill.
- SilasX 14d agoAgain, they do it even when those prerequisites don’t hold. And your second sentence is agreeing that it’s a different usage than the normal definiteness.