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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar
Omission of determiners in writing
Hello
I noticed in some poems and books that it seems sometimes acceptable to omit a determiner before a noun as in the following example :
"They hit the water, held tight, and went under rock."
I would like to know more about the possibility to avoid adding articles before nouns in writing.
Thank you so much for any insight on this matter.
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" In that case, the writer used "rock" as a mass noun because the river passed out of sight into the ground, which was made of rock.
- " In that case, the writer used "rock" as a mass noun because the river passed out of sight into the ground, which was made of rock.
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anonymous"They hit the water, held tight, and went under rock."
In that case, the writer used "rock" as a mass noun because the river passed out of sight into the ground, which was made of rock.
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anonymousthe possibility to avoidthe possibility of avoiding
By the way.
CJ
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