Learn English Make a Sentence and Pronunciation Lesson 15: Skiiers

[MuhammadEgypt]

Hi,

In the first sentences you said " the man is wearing a green outfit and that the woman is wearing a red outfit. my question is why do you used the article (a) before the adjectives? Why can't we say the man is wearing red outfit?

[TeacherPhilEnglish]

@MuhammadEgypt outfit is singular. example --> The man is wearing green pants. The woman is wearing a red shirt.

[indalondon2011]

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[trungnguyen1109]

@teacher Phil English: I do not think "there is SINGULAR NOUN + AND + SINGULAR NOUN" is the right combination. Check the Grammar in Use of Raymond Murphy and ... yah, THERE ARE is a right choice :)

[MyArtSchool]

Shouldn't it be " There are a man and a woman." ? ( in line 4 )

[TeacherPhilEnglish]

@MyArtSchool Not really. Only for plural words .Man is singular , woman is singular. So you can say "There is a man and a woman standing next to the mountain" or "There are two people standing next to the mountain". I'm not sure if there's a rule. I am making sentences based on how we talk.

[MyArtSchool]

@TeacherPhilEnglish Thanks Phil for the info, btw, i just remember what my teacher at school told me that .. (thing/person) + and + (Thing/person) = plural

[skyhi1001]

the new series is the best , thank you so much teacher

[TeacherPhilEnglish]

@skyhi1001 After posting blackboard, screen capture and monkey videos it seemed best to combine all into a new series