Monday, October 23, 2017

Necessity of a definite article before the antecedent of relative pronoun


From "NASA’s computers used to wear skirts. They’re finally getting the attention they deserve" by Rachel Feltman in The Washington Post, August 17, 2016.



Take that in for a second: Johnson was helping her country win the space race, calculating trajectories that got spacecraft in and out of space, for a decade before it became illegal for her co-workers to discriminate against her.



Why don’t we need a definite article the before trajectories while it is specified by the following that clause? If I put the there, what difference will it make?




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