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the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
lonely
Adjective
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If you feel lonely, you feel sad because you are alone.
She was bored and lonely without her friends.
I still miss him terribly and feel very lonely sometimes.
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A lonely place is a place with few people, often far from a city or town.
The only sound in that wild, lonely place was the wind.
guy
Noun
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A guy is a boy or a man.
So, I walk in and there's this woman talking to this guy.
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A guy is a rope from the top of something to the ground to keep it from falling over.