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Latest post Fri, Jun 16 2006 6:50 PM by CalifJim. 1 replies.
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Believer  +  236797 Fri, 16 Jun 06 05:43 PM

I was looking at an exercise and my mind began to wonder why this is so. The "so" element dealt with why there are definite articles here. Do you need more context?

the Zataory or Xelks

the Fiwakos Club

the Hions

Let's assume that all the names above, which I made up, are the names of social clubs.

Also, what does this phrase with an apostrophe stand for? The phrase is "Let's"   
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CalifJim  +  236817 Fri, 16 Jun 06 06:50 PM
Where it is not stated, the word club is assumed.
club is a concrete countable singular noun, so it must have a or the.
a is indefinite, and these clubs certainly aren't indefinite if you can actually name them!
So it has to be the definite article the.

Let's = Let us.

CJ
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