Materi pengunaan The indefinite article a/an dan Omission of a/an

Materi pengunaan The indefinite article a/an dan Omission of a/an - Sebelumnya saya telah menuliskan tentang cara penggunaan indefinite article a/an lengkap beserta contohnya. Nah, kali ini masih tetap lanjutan yang sebelumnya, tetapi lebih pada "omission of the a/an itu sendiri.

a/an akan  dihilangkan jika ;

A.  Before plural nouns

a/an has no plural form. So the plural of a dog is dogs, and of an egg is eggs.
B. Before uncountable nouns

C. Before names of meals, except when these are preceded by an adjective:
We have breakfast at eight.
He gave us a good breakfast.

Masalah penggunaan a/an and one

A.   a/an and one (adjective)
1. Keduanya bisa digunakan dalam perhitungan, memastikan waktu, jarak dan besaran. 

 
£1 = a/one pound   £1,000,000 = a/one million pounds (See chapter 36.)
But note that in The rent is £100 a week the a before week is not replaceable by one (see 2 F).
In other types of statement a/an and one are not normally interchangeable, because one + noun
normally means 'one only/not more than one' and a/an does not mean this:
A shotgun is no good. (It is the wrong sort of thing.)
One shotgun is no good. (I need two or three.)

2 Special uses of one ( Penggunaan khusus dari "one")

(a)  one (adjective/pronoun) used with another/others:

• One (boy) wanted to read, another /others wanted to watch TV.
• One day he wanted his lunch early, another day he wanted it late.

(b)  one can bisa digunakan day/week/month/year/summer/winter etc. or sebelum name  dari
day or month to memberi catatan waktu tertentu ketika sesuatu terjadi :

• One night there was a terrible storm.
• One winter the snow fell early.
• One day a telegram arrived.

(c)  one day bisa juga digunakan pada beberapa future date':

• One day you'll be sorry you treated him so badly. (Some day would also be possible.)

B.  a/an and one (pronoun)
one adalah pronoun sama halnya dengan a/an:

• Did you get a ticket? ~ Yes, I managed to get one.

 The plural of one used in this way is some:
Did you get tickets? ~ Yes, I managed to get some.

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