Indefinite (definition)
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- refers to a clause that does not have a specific object that it refers to. Some articles that signal indefinite clauses are: a, some, and one. The distinction between definite and indefinite is not set because there are many variables which are at work.
References
Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.
