'A shortage of' and 'the shortage of'?
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Can anyone explain these two sentences? Why the first one uses 'a', and the second one uses 'the'?
She said research by the RCN showed hospitals were facing a shortage
of both beds and staff - with images of "patients waiting on trolleys
in corridors" becoming all too common.He was back in Johannesburg in December 1903, and had to consider the
crisis in the gold-mining industry caused by the shortage of native
labour.
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Can anyone explain these two sentences? Why the first one uses 'a', and the second one uses 'the'?
She said research by the RCN showed hospitals were facing a shortage
of both beds and staff - with images of "patients waiting on trolleys
in corridors" becoming all too common.He was back in Johannesburg in December 1903, and had to consider the
crisis in the gold-mining industry caused by the shortage of native
labour.
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The first sentence announces the existence of a new problem, a shortage of beds. The second sentence seems to imply that the labour shortage was an existing problem in 1903, which perhaps the reader already knows about.
– Kate Bunting
Nov 20 at 16:56
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Can anyone explain these two sentences? Why the first one uses 'a', and the second one uses 'the'?
She said research by the RCN showed hospitals were facing a shortage
of both beds and staff - with images of "patients waiting on trolleys
in corridors" becoming all too common.He was back in Johannesburg in December 1903, and had to consider the
crisis in the gold-mining industry caused by the shortage of native
labour.
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Can anyone explain these two sentences? Why the first one uses 'a', and the second one uses 'the'?
She said research by the RCN showed hospitals were facing a shortage
of both beds and staff - with images of "patients waiting on trolleys
in corridors" becoming all too common.He was back in Johannesburg in December 1903, and had to consider the
crisis in the gold-mining industry caused by the shortage of native
labour.
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The first sentence announces the existence of a new problem, a shortage of beds. The second sentence seems to imply that the labour shortage was an existing problem in 1903, which perhaps the reader already knows about.
– Kate Bunting
Nov 20 at 16:56
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The first sentence announces the existence of a new problem, a shortage of beds. The second sentence seems to imply that the labour shortage was an existing problem in 1903, which perhaps the reader already knows about.
– Kate Bunting
Nov 20 at 16:56
The first sentence announces the existence of a new problem, a shortage of beds. The second sentence seems to imply that the labour shortage was an existing problem in 1903, which perhaps the reader already knows about.
– Kate Bunting
Nov 20 at 16:56
The first sentence announces the existence of a new problem, a shortage of beds. The second sentence seems to imply that the labour shortage was an existing problem in 1903, which perhaps the reader already knows about.
– Kate Bunting
Nov 20 at 16:56
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The first sentence announces the existence of a new problem, a shortage of beds. The second sentence seems to imply that the labour shortage was an existing problem in 1903, which perhaps the reader already knows about.
– Kate Bunting
Nov 20 at 16:56