By Indefinite articles, Idioms

As stated, 'come into view' is the expected idiom. However, it seems to me that #2 is odd primarily because of the indefinite article; 'the ocean came into our view' would work much better.

Here's what I would say:We are going to stay in/at a nice hotel, just like famous actors.I wouldn't use the same as here at all. I might say: We stayed at the same hotel as famous actors. You have an indefinite article in the main clause, though.I am interested in learning foreign languages and...

Hi MuttleyUnfortunately there are a myriad cases involving proper nouns with adjectival attributes and the indefinite article. You'll just have to learn them piecemeal. As you said in your first post, a/an is often used with a person's name:We met a sad George yesterday.The indefinite article is...

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Hi,Cambridge Dic says "means" is plural, like scissors or pantsmeans (METHOD) plural noun What is the matter with the leading indefinite article then, as in "a means of"? Is it an idiom? But if we can single out one particular "means" of all available, then shouldn't it be countable?

I agree with paco2004 that the plural fools is needed to agree with supporters.I also agree that the indefinite article a is needed in Don't make a fool of me.(To make a fool of is an idiom which means to cause someone or oneself to look foolish or stupid. ---dictionary.com)From Understanding...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one. Children of poor social classes in Dickens' times would be...

Thanks, Eagle, Paco, and MisterM for all your painstaking posts! Much to chew on. 1. It's odd that both your and K's dictionaries give this structure, which I seldom if ever hear. Maybe it's more common elsewhere. Sorry, all: I should have been clearer. I meant the ‘Child as he was…’...

Hello Komountain I had not forgotten. Here are some versions of the structure in question: 1. Hungry though he was, he shuddered at the sight. This seems to be the only non-problematic variant. It is an emphatic inversion: 'though he was hungry, he shuddered at the sight'. 2. Hungry as he...