>Ah, in the plural, "a" becomes "some" (or nothing) and "the" stays the same.
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>e.g. "I read a book on holiday" -> "I read some books on holiday".
>But if you said, "I read books on holiday" it might suggest that that was ALL you did! :-)
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>e.g. "I read the book you loaned me" -> "I read the books you loaned me"

Thanks, Terry. This is new for me. At least, I didn't know we need to use SOME when we're not talking about something specific. I will use SOME from now on.