Timeline for "We're stuck between floors two and three". Is the definite article implied?
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| Mar 1, 2020 at 4:40 | comment | added | Phil Perry | "Room 35" would be if the room is actually /labeled/ "35". You would rarely say "the 35th room", as no one likes to count that high for ordinals (too easy to lose track and miscount). "Boat 6" and "the 6th boat" could be interchangeable, if it's clear to see that there is a sign "Boat 6" /or/ it's easy to count boats 1, 2, 3,... up to the 6th. In general, if there is a sign for the room (or boat or floor) number, use that to avoid miscounting or accidentally using a different convention (e.g., "Ground floor" versus "1st floor" versus "Floor 1"). | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 20:54 | comment | added | Michael Rybkin | @Rusletov Well, I think they did a pretty good job explaining what it means in the answer as well as in the comments section. I don't know much about clothing sizes, but I'm a Large would basically mean that when it comes to shirts whose sizes are "Large", that's what I wear. So, I'm a Large. I wear size-Large T-shirts. For shoes, you could say I wear size-10 shoes or I wear a size-10 or even I'm a size-10 depending on the context. | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 19:50 | comment | added | Let | @MichaelRybkin "I'm a Large" is it wrong? english.stackexchange.com/questions/231051/… Why is there an "a" in front of a t-shirt size? | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 7:35 | comment | added | Let | "What's your shoe size?" - "I wear (a) size-10 shoes", "I saw a dress in (a) size-12", "I'm (a) size-Large", "She's (a) size medium", "I'm looking for a sweater in (a) size Large?" Is putting the indefinite articles incorrect here? | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 7:06 | comment | added | David | You could have "a size-10 shoe", referring to a single shoe. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 22:25 | comment | added | Michael Rybkin | It should be size-10 shoes (you don't necessarily need a hyphen, but you can have it there for more clarity if you want to). Size-10 is acting as an adjective that describes the shoes that you're talking about. A size-10 shoes is grammatically wrong because the article a is supposed to go with shoes (size-10 is an adjective describing the shoes as I said), but shoes is plural! That's just wrong grammar. A size-10 is really just the abbreviation for a pair of size-10 shoes. That's why an article appears in front of size-10. That's how I understand all this. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 20:10 | comment | added | Let | Size 10 shoes or "a size 10 shoes". I've seen "a size 10", "a size Large" somewhere . Why is there indefinite articles? Can they be omitted? And what would it mean? | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 19:56 | history | edited | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2020 at 17:52 | history | edited | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2020 at 17:48 | comment | added | pboss3010 | Further to this, given the potential for odd labeling of floors, saying "between floor 2 and floor 3" specifies you mean the floors labeled 2 and 3, ignoring potential confusion of what exactly is the second floor. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Room 35, door 9, car 54, boat 6. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 17:20 | history | answered | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |