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Lissle Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

A perfect relationship is "a" result of the hard work from two imperfect people.

The sentence is from the movie "Silver Linings Playbook." I wonder why it
uses the indefinite article "a" instead of the definite article "the" ?

Could someone help me understand this sentence, please?
  

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"a result" may suggest more strongly that there are other results too, though this is not clear cut, and in practice the difference between "a" and "the" in this sentence seems fairly unimportant. The indefinite article could just be arbitrary author's choice.

— GPY

  • "a result" may suggest more strongly that there are other results too, though this is not clear cut, and in practice the difference between "a" and "the" in this sentence seems fairly unimportant.
  • The indefinite article could just be arbitrary author's choice.
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"a result" may suggest more strongly that there are other results too, though this is not clear cut, and in practice the difference between "a" and "the" in this sentence seems fairly unimportant. The indefinite article could just be arbitrary author's choice.
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Lissle A perfect relationship is a result of the hard work from two imperfect people.
To my ear there are two mistakes. It seems to me it should be

A perfect relationship is the result of the hard work of two imperfect people.

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