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Oddo, you're pulling our collective leg right?
She luuuurrrrves 'em.
Not me though :cry:

Friendy, yes, that's basically it: immediacy. I think that's the key concept. By using 'this' instead of 'a', you try to project the listener into the position of 'first person'. So that the story...

Well, I gave you a clue about the present simple in the past. When is that used? For what purpose?

And yes, it definitely is an indefinite article. But I don't think there's any touch of...

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Two friends are chatting in the pub after a hard day's work. One says to the other:
"You'll never believe what happened to me yesterday. I was sitting right here in this pub, when this guy comes up...

между прочим, не угадала :wink:

To Oddo: no, as I understand it, they're quantifiers, which are a subset of determiners. Articles are another subset of determiners.

Summit like that anyhoo.

The one I'm referring to is a...

On a related topic, a little quiz for the Russians:
Did you know that recently (let's say over the last 50 years) a new article has been added to the English language? Apart from a/an/the, we also...