B. By being a definite or specific event.
(There is elaborately detailed information about the object. In other words,
the object must be modified by an attributive clause or other elaborate
modifiers.)
2.1 Wǒ kàn-le zuótiān wǎnshang de guójì xīnwén.
我看了昨天晚上的国际新闻。
I
watched last night’s international news.
2.2 Wáng tàitai gěi wǒ kàn-le tā zài Rìběn
mǎi de nèi běn xīn chūbǎn
de Rì-Hàn zìdiǎn.
王太太给我看了她在日本买的那本新出版的日汉字典。
Mrs. Wang showed me the
newly published Japanese-Chinese dictionary that she had bought in
In examples 2.1 and 2.2, much detailed information
is given about the objects xīnwén新闻
and zìdiǎn字典,
which makes them very specific. The news is not any news; it is the
yesterday-evening-international news. The dictionary is not any dictionary out
there in the world; it is the
she-bought-in-Japan-that-copy-of-newly-published-Japanese-Chinese dictionary.