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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Article before certain adjectives
Hi.
While describing a person, can we use articles (a/an) before hair?
Example:
I have a long hair vs. I have long hair.
To me, both are OK. But some sources do not agree that "the use of article in such an example is wrong". But I see that it is widely used in daily life and in internet.
PS: By using hair, I mean the hair on our head.
While describing a person, can we use articles (a/an) before hair?
Example:
I have a long hair vs. I have long hair.
To me, both are OK. But some sources do not agree that "the use of article in such an example is wrong". But I see that it is widely used in daily life and in internet.
PS: By using hair, I mean the hair on our head.
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The hair on your head is uncountable when all of it is being considered, so no indefinite article-- I have long /black/curly hair . Individually, of course, they are countable: I found a long hair in my borscht.
- The hair on your head is uncountable when all of it is being considered, so no indefinite article-- I have long /black/curly hair .
- Individually, of course, they are countable: I found a long hair in my borscht.
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The hair on your head is uncountable when all of it is being considered, so no indefinite article-- I have long /black/curly hair. Individually, of course, they are countable: I found a long hair in my borscht.
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If you say, 'I have a long hair' it means you have a hair (or a strand of hair).
If a man who is bald says he has a long hair on his head, it means he has a hair sticking out of his head.
Here hair is countable. One hair, but two, three, four, etc hairs. You can also say one strand of hair, two, three, four, etc strands of hair.
On the other hand, 'I have long ha
If a man who is bald says he has a long hair on his head, it means he has a hair sticking out of his head.
Here hair is countable. One hair, but two, three, four, etc hairs. You can also say one strand of hair, two, three, four, etc strands of hair.
On the other hand, 'I have long ha
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