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English 1b3 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Omitting articles in lists

a. I am a self-motivated, an intelligent, and a friendly person.

b. I am a self-motivated, intelligent, and friendly person.

Does b work even though 'intelligent' requires the article 'an' not 'a'?

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Yes. It's more natural than (a).

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Yes. It's more natural than (a).
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What about the difference between:

1) a friendly person
2) friendly person
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There should be no comma after intelligent. If one uses 'and' it is better for the continuous flow of the sentence to avoid punctuation marks.

The artcle 'a' was already used as the third word of the sentence so it is unnessary to put it in front of 'friendly' (again).
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