No article before the word "job"
Hello my English-speaking friends : )
Could you please tell me, why in the following sentence there is no article before the word "job"?
Could you please send me the outstanding PO for job #X?
Thanks!
Top answer
I assume that "#X" is a job number? We do not use the definite article with phrases of the form "noun + number" such as "job (number) three" or "witness (number) six" or "page four". I don't think that the omission of the article is easily predictable from general grammatical rules.
- I assume that "#X" is a job number?
- We do not use the definite article with phrases of the form "noun + number" such as "job (number) three" or "witness (number) six" or "page four".
- I don't think that the omission of the article is easily predictable from general grammatical rules.
- You probably just have to learn that "this is how we say it".
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I assume that "#X" is a job number?
We do not use the definite article with phrases of the form "noun + number" such as "job (number) three" or "witness (number) six" or "page four". I don't think that the omission of the article is easily predictable from general grammatical rules. You probably just have to learn that "this is how we say it".
0When there is a noun+number, an article is not used before the noun.
'His class is scheduled to meet in room 206.'
'For the next week, the room his class will be meeting in has changed."
'He is supposed to meet his wife at gate 6 of the train station.'
'He told his wife he would meet her at the gate."
Think of a noun+number as an uncapatilized
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