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|    Dallas Hinton to Anton Shepelev    |
|    A rule needed :)    |
|    30 Oct 19 11:23:42    |
      MSGID: 1:153/7715.0 db9d5690       REPLY: 2:221/360.0 5db99292       CHRS: IBMPC 2       Hi Anton -- on Oct 30 2019 at 15:39, you wrote:              AS> Indeed, a charity. But I was asking why in the dialog above       AS> "secretary" is modifed by the definite article, whereas       AS> "treasurer" and "president" are not.              Oh, sorry - I misunderstood your question! I think it's been answered,       then... in a string of nouns like that, it's permissible to use the article       only for the first noun.                     Cheers... Dallas              --- timEd/NT 1.30+        * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, CANADA (1:153/7715)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/2 18/0 116/116 123/0 25 50 150 755 135/300 138/146       SEEN-BY: 153/250 757 7715 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/354       SEEN-BY: 229/426 1014 240/100 1120 1634 2100 5138 5832 5853 8001 8002       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 261/38 280/5003 5006 300/4 313/41 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 335/364 342/200 382/147 460/58 640/1138 1321 1384       SEEN-BY: 712/848 2454/119 3634/0 12 15 24 27 50       PATH: 153/7715 3634/12 640/1384 221/1 280/5003 240/1120 5832 229/426           |
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