I am not saying they not important

They have their purposes. But I would consider it a bad writing habit if an essay is cluttered with unnecessary "a"s or "the"s. And what makes you so sure as where to add "a"s or "the"s, at the same time, unknowingly changing writer's intention to your understanding? You don't change The Great Gat*****y's "a" and "the", because you would automatically adjust your understanding to the writer's intention.

Charles Dickens loved commas, George Orwell avoided them. There is no one “correct” English, but there are styles, or “accents” in your understanding.

 

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• As this is for discussion, we can agree to disagree then? -非文學青年- ♀ (477 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 07:31:00

• 怎麽了？你們兩位都是我最敬重的大牛人之二不想看見你們任何一位生氣。 -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 07:48:39

• 謝謝。沒有生氣，小蔓，學術討論，嗬嗬。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 07:56:06

• I am not offended, nor am I angry. -hammerheadshark- ♀ (4234 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 15:09:35

• what I meant by "看錯人了” was -非文學青年- ♀ (2088 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 16:03:20

• Tell that native speaker -hammerheadshark- ♀ (2448 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 16:52:38

• let's talk about this offline or discuss it in the future. -非文學青年- ♀ (718 bytes) () 09/23/2012 postreply 17:36:42