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Fire1 Posted 6 years ago
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My type of a man vs my type of man
1. You're not my type of man.
2. You're not my type of a man.
Q1) Which one is correct English?
I think only 1 is correct.
or are both 1 and 2 correct?
Q2) If sentence 1 is correct English, grammatically, in sentence 1, is "man" considered as an uncountable noun, because there is no article to "man" ?
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fire1 I think only 1 is correct. Right. fire1 Q2) If sentence 1 is correct English, grammatically, in sentence 1, is "man" considered as an uncountable noun, because there is no article to "man" ?
- fire1 I think only 1 is correct.
- Right.
- fire1 Q2) If sentence 1 is correct English, grammatically, in sentence 1, is "man" considered as an uncountable noun, because there is no article to "man" ?
- I can't think of "man" as uncountable there, but I don't know what else to call it.
- It seems to me that it is still countable, and we just drop the article, putting it in a third unnamed class of noun (there it is again, "noun").
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fire1I think only 1 is correct.
Right.
fire1Q2) If sentence 1 is correct English, grammatically, in sentence 1, is "man" considered as an uncountable noun, because there is no article to "man" ?
I can't think of "man" as uncountable there, but I don't know what else to call it. It seems to me that it is still count
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