There's a lot of things like that, aren't there? It's so amazing! The whole world is connected, even in how we do things.
[It honestly is fascinating, from Colette's perspective, though has perhaps unintentionally distracted her from working on her own sentence diagrams. At any rate, across the table Kratos is delayed in answering Lloyd's question, owing to that expectant look Lloyd keeps showing him. It's very nearly a trusting look, and it disarms Kratos every time.]
Uh -- these are a specific building. A landmark, if you will; something you can identify as specific to the circumstances and location. Compare to 'a' or 'an', for instance, which are inspecific --
[Kratos thumbs out 'the' in the sentence and replaces them so the sentence reads: A quick fox jumped over a brown dog. Lloyd tips his head at them.]
Huh. You're right; now I can't tell which dog got jumped over. Hey, Colette? How many brown dogs are there in Iselia?
[Colette turns from Yuan to answer with a bright smile.]
Three! Happy, Larry, and Butch.
But how would you be able to tell which one it is, if they're all brown?
[This is Kratos, seizing an opportunity, and Lloyd grins at him.]
That's what the clothes are for, right? And if it's a quick fox then probably he isn't going to get eaten, but it'd help if the dog isn't quick either. So we can do this, right?
[Lloyd scrawls 'lazy' before 'brown', and Kratos finds himself smiling as he points out:]
But what if more than one of them is lazy?
Hm. Good point. Hey, Colette? Which one's the laziest?
Definitely Happy.
[Kratos has a vague sense that this lesson might have gotten away from him, but his chest feels unexpectedly light as he watches Lloyd scratch out 'a lazy brown dog' and replace it with 'Happy'. The sentence reads 'A quick fox jumped over Happy'. Colette peers over to read the slate upside-down, and giggles.]
Now it sounds like we've got a lot of foxes in Iselia Forest and Happy's too lazy to chase any of them!
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[It honestly is fascinating, from Colette's perspective, though has perhaps unintentionally distracted her from working on her own sentence diagrams. At any rate, across the table Kratos is delayed in answering Lloyd's question, owing to that expectant look Lloyd keeps showing him. It's very nearly a trusting look, and it disarms Kratos every time.]
Uh -- these are a specific building. A landmark, if you will; something you can identify as specific to the circumstances and location. Compare to 'a' or 'an', for instance, which are inspecific --
[Kratos thumbs out 'the' in the sentence and replaces them so the sentence reads: A quick fox jumped over a brown dog. Lloyd tips his head at them.]
Huh. You're right; now I can't tell which dog got jumped over. Hey, Colette? How many brown dogs are there in Iselia?
[Colette turns from Yuan to answer with a bright smile.]
Three! Happy, Larry, and Butch.
But how would you be able to tell which one it is, if they're all brown?
[This is Kratos, seizing an opportunity, and Lloyd grins at him.]
That's what the clothes are for, right? And if it's a quick fox then probably he isn't going to get eaten, but it'd help if the dog isn't quick either. So we can do this, right?
[Lloyd scrawls 'lazy' before 'brown', and Kratos finds himself smiling as he points out:]
But what if more than one of them is lazy?
Hm. Good point. Hey, Colette? Which one's the laziest?
Definitely Happy.
[Kratos has a vague sense that this lesson might have gotten away from him, but his chest feels unexpectedly light as he watches Lloyd scratch out 'a lazy brown dog' and replace it with 'Happy'. The sentence reads 'A quick fox jumped over Happy'. Colette peers over to read the slate upside-down, and giggles.]
Now it sounds like we've got a lot of foxes in Iselia Forest and Happy's too lazy to chase any of them!