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Usage of article: I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands.



 
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Usage of article: I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands. #1 (permalink) Tue Jun 03, 2008 18:10 pm   Usage of article: I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands.
 

Hi,
Please look at this sentence:

Let me know if the phone rings because I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands

=> There's a mistake in this sentence and I think it's "the call", which should be changed into "a call", but I choose it just because one option must be chosen. I do wonder if "the call" is really unacceptable here. (I think we can still use "the" here to emphasize that very only call)
What do you think?

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Usage of article: I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands. #2 (permalink) Tue Jun 03, 2008 18:11 pm   Usage of article: I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands.
 

Yes, if unmarked, I wouldn't use the call there. I might here though:

Let me know if the phone rings because I'm expecting the call from the client in the Netherlands.

Mind if you want to emphasise/mark "the", you could:

Let me know if the phone rings because I'm expecting the (pronounced: thee)* call from a client in the Netherlands.

*i.e The one and only, the most important call (salient), the one I have so been waiting for.
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Usage of article: I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands. #3 (permalink) Tue Jun 03, 2008 18:50 pm   Usage of article: I'm expecting the call from a client in the Netherlands.
 

And so you have the same idea as me? which means all these are alright, according to which part we want to emphasize?

a call from a client (any calls, any clients)
a call from the client (emphasize the client)
the call from a client (emphasize the call itself - that only and only call)
the call from the client (emphasize both - that very call from that very client)
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