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Marold Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

One article issue

"The fans were in jubilant mood after the victory."

"She was in a bullish mood about the future of the company."

These two sentences were taken out of a realiable source. They should be gramatically correct, so I am asking you how come there is no article in the first sentence before the noun "mood" whereas in the second sentence the indefitine article is included. Why?

Thanks a lot for your opinions.
  

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Marold"The fans were in jubilant mood after the victory."
Lots of people make typographical errors, especially in the rush to get the news out before their competition.
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MaroldWhy?
Author choice (or just random variation if there was no conscious choice). Including the article is more common, and in many cases it would be odd to omit it. For example, you would not say "She's been in foul mood this morning". The exact reason why it works in your first sentence is not so easy to pin down. At least partly it may be because it's a
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GPY(PS: I disagree with AS that it is a typo.)
It would be considered a typo in American English.
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AlpheccaStars GPY(PS: I disagree with AS that it is a typo.)It would be considered a typo in American English.
Maybe there's a difference between AmE and BrE in this respect then ...
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AlpheccaStars GPY(PS: I disagree with AS that it is a typo.)It would be considered a typo in American English.
There aren't exactly millions of examples in COCA -- not that I could find, anyway -- but there are a few, like:

government fighters still seem in determined mood
he's going to come back rested, ready, and in fighting mood
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They sound odd to me.
These sound much more natural:

government fighters still seem determined
he's going to come back rested, ready, and in fighting spirit
he emerged from a meeting in Belgrade with the Bosnian Serb leadership optimistic
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