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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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"He enjoyed a distinguished academic career"
Why we add 'a' instead of 'the'.
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anonymous Why do we add 'a' instead of 'the' ? There is no single thing which is "the distinguished academic career". The only way you might use "the" there is if you were drawing a contrast between two or more different kinds of academic careers.
- anonymous Why do we add 'a' instead of 'the' ?
- There is no single thing which is "the distinguished academic career".
- The only way you might use "the" there is if you were drawing a contrast between two or more different kinds of academic careers.
- Then you could talk about, for example, "the failed academic career" and "the distinguished academic career".
- A discussion of this kind is highly unlikely, of course, so it's equally unlikely that you will ever see the combination "the distinguished academic career".
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anonymousWhy do we add 'a' instead of 'the'?
There is no single thing which is "the distinguished academic career".
The only way you might use "the" there is if you were drawing a contrast between two or more different kinds of academic careers. Then you could talk
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