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Repulsive Posted 5 years ago
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Why indifinate article is used in this sentence?
Many men & women aspire to (a) presidency.
Last summer we went on (a) cruise in the caribbean.
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Repulsive Many men & women aspire to (a) presidency. It seems rather unlikely that we would use the indefinite article here. It implies that there are many presidencies, and men and women aspire to an unidentified one, or any one.
- Repulsive Many men & women aspire to (a) presidency.
- It seems rather unlikely that we would use the indefinite article here.
- It implies that there are many presidencies, and men and women aspire to an unidentified one, or any one.
- More often, when expressing this idea, we would be talking about a specific known presidency, so we would use the definite article.
- Repulsive Last summer we went on (a) cruise in the C aribbean.
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RepulsiveMany men & women aspire to (a) presidency.
It seems rather unlikely that we would use the indefinite article here. It implies that there are many presidencies, and men and women aspire to an unidentified one, or any one. More often, when expressing this idea, we would be talking about a specific known presidency, so we would use the definite articl
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