Hi Anton -- on Oct 30 2019 at 15:39, you wrote:

AS> Indeed, a charity.  But I was asking why in the dialog above
AS> "secretary" is modifed  by  the  definite  article,  whereas
AS> "treasurer" and "president" are not.

Oh, sorry - I misunderstood your question!  I think it's been answered, then...
in a string of nouns like that, it's permissible to use the article only for
the first noun.


Cheers... Dallas

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