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Rotter Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

A great pleasure or great pleasure





  1. It was a great pleasure to send this application for the post of a bus driver.

  1. It was great pleasure to read your advertisement about a bus driver.

    I just want to send an application for the advertised vacancy. I am not sure about the article. Which is the correct one?

  

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Hello, Rotter, welcome to the English Forums! 1. is correct - with the article-.

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Hello, Rotter, welcome to the English Forums!

1. is correct - with the article-.

You can also say:"I'm glad to send my application ..."/ "I want to apply for..."
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Thanks pienne

Usually the word pleasure is not countable. Is this countable in the given context?
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Hi,

It is a pleasure to meet you - countable, ie use an article.

I read your letter with pleasure - uncountable, no article.

I'd say that in Britain or in N. America, you should just say I am sending (or enclosing) my application ... I would be grateful for an interview.....

In such letters, we don't nor
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0Pleasure is countable in this example, so you should use the "a."02br
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00It's not very natural - "it will be a great pleasure" sounds quite formal, but "you won't be sorry" sounds rather informal.0-
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