By Learn English, Definite articles

Milky wrote:<As a teacher, how would one explain the use of the definite article here? He still wets the bed. She reads the newspaper every day. We always miss the bus.>Hi Milky,if I was an ESL teacher? That's simple. She reads the newspaper every day. Why do I need "the"? Because...

Hello Infinity. I'm a mere English learner from Japan, but could you allow me to throw my 2 cents on your question? Frankly speaking, I'd say you'd better give up the hope you could get a conclusive answer to the question. I have raised a similar question before in this forum but I could not...

abbie, thank you so much for your help and your words, in fact , I am always not confident in my translation work, so far I can't manage to use definite articles"the" correctly ,which has troubled me a lot since i began to learn english a few years ago. :( do you have msn ,maybe we can...

where are you from vincent?. I would say yes it is possible to indentify certain mistakes Spanish people usually make and I have a long list of them somewhere in my files, for example one of them would be the use of the definite article. We use articles a lot more than English people do because...