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Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 07.08.2022 03:00

  AK>> From the story about dr Jekyll & Hyde:
  AK>>
  AK>> ...I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror
  AK>> woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the
  AK>> crash of cymbals, and bounding from my bed, I rushed to
  AK>> the mirror.
  AK>>
  AK>> Why "the crash" not "a crash"?
  AS> Stevenson compares Jekyll's (I think) shock to that produced
  AS> by a sudden, sharp, and loud sound.  And cymbals, struck
  AS> together with great force, make exactly such kind of sound.
  AS> He is referring not to*a*  specific instance of crashing-
  AS> together of*a*  specific pair of cymbals (there was none!),
  AS> but to a general quality of that action as a rerefence.

I see your point.

--reference.

  AS> P.S.: I don't know why people read J&H as their first (and
  AS>        often last) work by Stevenson, who is a great master
  AS>        of the short story.

Who are the people you are talking about? ;-)

There is a teaching school which practices such a method. They think it 
is the most effective way to learn words, and they publish books like these:

https://i.ibb.co/0y1FZNh/Kaplan-books.jpg

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor,local.cc.ak 2022
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