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Hi!
sorry about the confusing title of this post(I made a mistake)
I am reading a book and there was a sentence like
"I watched the pedestrians file past"
But I was wondering why there's "the"
If there was no article, what different meaning would it make?
Thank you and have a nice day!
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Using an article here is optional. Both "I watched pedestrians file past" and "I watched the pedestrians file past" essentially mean the same thing. As a small nuance, including the article could refer to a specific group of pedestrians (if there were more than one group of pedestrians), otherwise the two sentences are pretty interchangeable.
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