Can I use a before nothing
Can I use 'a' to individualize 'nothing'? i.e., I lean on a nothing, for it makes me at peace. (cf. I lean on nothing)
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Anonymous Can I use 'a' to individualize 'nothing'? Yes. Your sentence is cryptic but not ungrammatical.
- Anonymous Can I use 'a' to individualize 'nothing'?
- Yes.
- Your sentence is cryptic but not ungrammatical.
- CJ
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AnonymousCan I use 'a' to individualize 'nothing'?
Yes.
Your sentence is cryptic but not ungrammatical.
CJ
0AnonymousCan I use 'a' to individualize 'nothing'? i.e., I lean on a nothing, for it makes me at peace. (cf. I lean on nothing)
I don't think so. In my opinion, 'no' in "nothing" does the job of the determiner thus excluding 'a'. There are idiomatic usages of plural "nothings" but in quite different contexts, e.g., "they traded a few nothings
0In the US, you sometimes hear this - usually with the adjectives big and little - used as an insult. For example:
I don't know what she sees in him, he's a big nothing.
I don't know what he sees in her, she's a little nothing.
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