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Read Detective Clouseau's field notes about the great bakery heist. Select ALL the sentences that correctly apply the rules for first and second mentions of a noun.
The correct answers are I saw a suspicious man holding a baguette. The man was running very fast. and A pigeon flew away with a croissant. The pigeon looked extremely pleased with itself.
When we mention a singular countable noun for the very first time, we use the indefinite article a/an because the listener doesn't know which specific one we mean yet. When we mention it again, it becomes specific, so we use the definite article the.