Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Omitting "the/a/an"?
I know we should use an article with a countable noun.
I remember when I was watching a TV series, one thing got stuck in my mind, because a speaker didn't use any articles before a noun.
A few people (a man and a boy) were going inside a house. When they both were inside the house, the man said to the boy, "Kitchen's clean".
It was from "The Walking Dead" episode.
And I've heard a lot of times when people omit (in TV series or movies) articles with countable nouns.
Any explanation on this?
I remember when I was watching a TV series, one thing got stuck in my mind, because a speaker didn't use any articles before a noun.
A few people (a man and a boy) were going inside a house. When they both were inside the house, the man said to the boy, "Kitchen's clean".
It was from "The Walking Dead" episode.
And I've heard a lot of times when people omit (in TV series or movies) articles with countable nouns.
Any explanation on this?
Top answer
It's just very casual, fragmentary speech. We do not always speak English in perfect, complete sentences. But as a beginning learner, you should try to.
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It's just very casual, fragmentary speech.
We do not always speak English in perfect, complete sentences.
But as a beginning learner, you should try to.
Clive
We do not always speak English in perfect, complete sentences.
But as a beginning learner, you should try to.
Clive
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