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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar
The reason why we don't use possessive pronouns in those cases is because we consider it a pleonasm. If we want a person open his/her eyes, we assume that person can't open someone else's eyes.
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I'm not sure, but I think English is out of line here, and Spanish conforms to other European language norms of using a definite article for body parts. It is not just Romance languages, either, because German and ancient Greek conform as well. I might well be wrong though.
