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Re: "A" tiger
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Norman Carlson <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 24 May 1997 12:49:23 +0000
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IS our "sun" unique? My dictionary seems to suggest not.
 
However, my real point is this proposition, based on the responses to
the "a tiger/the tiger" query:
 
The combination "a phoenix" would ALWAYS be "ungrammatical," since there
is only one of it!
 
Norm Carlson
Western Michigan U.

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