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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Spirit or a spirit
Hi. Please help. Once in a while, I hear people say "Man is spirit." What is the different between the expression "Man is spirit" (without the indefinite article "a" in front of the word "spirit" and the expression "Man is a spirit"? Are they both correct?
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Anonymous Are they both correct? They both seem so unusual to me that I find it hard to judge which is/are correct. But leaving that aside, 'spirit' is amorphous 'spirit substance', whatever that might be, and 'a spirit' is one separate 'spirit object' (as distinct from other 'spirit objects'), whatever that may be.
- Anonymous Are they both correct?
- They both seem so unusual to me that I find it hard to judge which is/are correct.
- But leaving that aside, 'spirit' is amorphous 'spirit substance', whatever that might be, and 'a spirit' is one separate 'spirit object' (as distinct from other 'spirit objects'), whatever that may be.
- CJ
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AnonymousAre they both correct?They both seem so unusual to me that I find it hard to judge which is/are correct. But leaving that aside, 'spirit' is amorphous 'spirit substance', whatever that might be, and 'a spirit' is one separate 'spirit object' (as distinct from other 'spirit objects'), whatever that may be.
CJ
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