Question

1. My father reads the newspaper every day.

(What does it mean?
2. My father reads the same newspaper everyday.

3. My father reads a newspaper every day. Does #1 mean #2 or #3? Is 'the newspaper' the generic term? )

Answer 1

"The newspaper" is a generic term. It assumes that it's the same newspaper -- i.e., the local city newspaper.

We don't usually use # 3.

Answer 2

Thank you?
Do you mean that he doesn't read only one (the same) newspaper again and again?

Do you mean that he reads everyday newspaper (different newspaper every day)?

Answer 3

Ahh!

It's not the "same" newspaper over and over. He reads each day's edition of the local city newspaper.

Answer 4

OK. Thank you.
If the father reads the same newspaper again an again, what expressions do we have to use? If he has such a strange habit, what do we say?

Answer 5

We might say that a person who reads the same newspaper again and again is demented or has Alzheimer's disease.

Answer 6

You'd clarify it more. You would say something like:

My father reads the same newspaper every day. By that, I mean the EXACT same paper.

You would say that with a stronger emphasis on "exact."