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Please explain the use of "a" before "good night's sleep.
Does it refer to "sleep" which is uncountable?
why the present perfect "have had" here?
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Jigneshbharati Please explain the use of "a" before "good night's sleep. Does it refer to "sleep" which is uncountable? It's an idiomatic expression, or set expression at any rate, and a bit tricky to tell which noun the article relates to.
- Jigneshbharati Please explain the use of "a" before "good night's sleep.
- Does it refer to "sleep" which is uncountable?
- It's an idiomatic expression, or set expression at any rate, and a bit tricky to tell which noun the article relates to.
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- " several good nights' sleep" and not "several good night's sleeps", it apparently relates to "night".
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JigneshbharatiPlease explain the use of "a" before "good night's sleep. Does it refer to "sleep" which is uncountable?
It's an idiomatic expression, or set expression at any rate, and a bit tricky to tell which noun the article relates to. On the basis that the plural is e.g. " several good nights' sleep" and not "several good night's sleeps", it apparently
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