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JimmyH Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

CAUGHT BY

I was caught by a surprise test today at school.

What does CAUGHT BY mean here?
  

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Catch someone by a surprise is an idiom; please note that 'a' doesn't have to appear in this.

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  • Catch someone by a surprise is an idiom; please note that 'a' doesn't have to appear in this.
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Catch someone by a surprise is an idiom; please note that 'a' doesn't have to appear in this.
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Only because you can't use an article before a non-countable noun?
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Test caught him by surprise. That's how you'd need to use this idiom. Sometimes, the words can't be taken for their literal meaning, and if you carefully look at this, you'd come to know that "caught by suprise test today" doesn't sound natural. It is as good as saying "caught by a thing".
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