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26 Jun 2016
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What is the difference between man and a man ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between man and a man ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Well you can say 'A man just walked across the street' but saying 'Man just walked across the street' would not be natural.
You can say "the man walked across the street"
But using man on it's own without 'a' or 'the' is relatively unlikely .
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@st_kamo: It, man, ups to the word's position in sentence, what's type of word.
Nowadays, the word 'man' use to indicate adult human, that can be male or female. But it can also use for male only.
A man: 'a' is an article. In this case, 'a man' means one person whom we don't know. Identify is unknown. It can also be a type of people.
For example:
- Hey! Be the man that you wanna be. (be the person you wanna be)
- A good man must not be the bad man.
It really hard to explain it. I suggest you should learn articles to understand it.
Try this:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/engl...
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- Japanese
Umm I'm still confused.
I can see "man" and "a man" are used in these news
I can see "man" and "a man" are used in these news
- English (US)
In that case , both have the same meaning. Using just man is normal in the news but you would not usually say it in regular conversation.
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@HaleighBriana: i see. I'll just get used to it haha😄
- Vietnamese
@st_kamo: What you are reading is called newspaper. It has its own grammar rules. Just like @HaleighBriana said, in this case, they are the same. But you must understand that the word 'man' in title is 'a man'.
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