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Alansk Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
English Articles
I have a question concerning an online articles quiz: http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/Articles/Exercises/.
According to this quiz, question no. 9, sentence "I can't believe I failed ___ yesterday's test!" should not include any article before "yesterday's test". I would like to know why? In my opinion, since we are talking about the particular test which took place yesterday, we shoud use 'the'. Even if there would be couple tests and this is a first mention of one of them why not to use 'a'?
Thank you in advance for your reply.
Kind regards,
Alan
According to this quiz, question no. 9, sentence "I can't believe I failed ___ yesterday's test!" should not include any article before "yesterday's test". I would like to know why? In my opinion, since we are talking about the particular test which took place yesterday, we shoud use 'the'. Even if there would be couple tests and this is a first mention of one of them why not to use 'a'?
Thank you in advance for your reply.
Kind regards,
Alan
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Adding "the" would be simply wrong. You don't need the article with the possessive form of "yesterday". The 's at the and does the job just fine.
- Adding "the" would be simply wrong.
- You don't need the article with the possessive form of "yesterday".
- The 's at the and does the job just fine.
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Adding "the" would be simply wrong. You don't need the article with the possessive form of "yesterday". The 's at the and does the job just fine.
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alanskyesterday'sWhen you have a possessive of a time unit, you almost never have an article before it.
tomorrow's questions
yesterday's exam
this morning's newspaper
CJ
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Thank your both, ozzourti and CalifJim, for your replies. I didn't realize that this rule exists(or maybe I just forgot about it). Take care.
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