Oct. 4, 2022
Grammatical Question
I found a sentence "The author recovers from emergency abdominal surgery in 2019. ", and I wonder why there is no artice before surgery. I would appreciate it so much if someone can teach me the reason in comment !
Grammatical Question
I found athis sentence: "The author recovers from emergency abdominal surgery in 2019.,
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I found this sentence, "The author recovers from emergency abdominal surgery in 2019,
Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks.
", and I wonder why there is no article before surgery.
I would appreciate it so much if someone can teach mewould let me know the reason in the comment s section!
can → if anyone has the ability to let you know → we all do so it makes this rhetorical
would → if anyone would take the time to let you know
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In the US, we can use articles but it's optional. I think we most often use articles when we're speaking with someone who knows that a mutual acquaintance is going to have a medical procedure. For example,
- He's recovering from the gastric bypass surgery.
- She's recovering from the knee surgery.
- He's recovering from the angioplasty.
If the person with whom we're speaking is unaware that someone was scheduled for surgery, then we would reference the procedure with an article but it's still okay to use the articles.
- He's recovering from gastric bypass surgery.
- She's recovering from knee surgery.
- He's recovering from angioplasty.
We can use possessives with these sentences, too, if the person to whom we're speaking wasn't aware about the scheduled procedure.
- He's recovering from his gastric bypass surgery.
- She's recovering from her knee surgery.
- He's recovering from his angioplasty.
These are all okay.
We do use articles with other medical procedures whether or not the person to whom we're speaking is aware of the scheduled surgery so this is a tricky grammar rule. It's not okay to drop the articles here.
- She's recovering from the tonsillectomy.
- He's recovering from the kidney transplant.
- She's recovering from the caesarean.
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Oct. 5, 2022
Interesting! The word "surgery" is a little bit unique in this case then. Thank you so much, いつもありがとうございます！！いろいろな例を挙げてくださったのでよくわかりました！
I found athe sentence, "The author recovers from (an) emergency abdominal surgery in 2019.”
An article is not necessary, but you could add “an” if you wanted to. This would be grammatically correct and would sound natural, too.
Bees is correct that “surgery” is a mass noun and therefore doesn’t require an article, but surgery is also a count noun, which does require an article. Both versions (mass noun and count noun) work in this sentence.
Here’s a related article:
https://www.occupationalenglishtest.org/blog-use-article-confused/
Grammatical Question
I found athe sentence "The author recovers from emergency abdominal surgery in 2019," and I wonder why there is no article before "surgery".
", and I wonder why there is no artice before surgery.
I would appreciate it so much if someone canould teach me the reason in a comment !
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The reason for this is that "surgery" can be used as both a mass noun and count noun, and here it is being used as a mass noun referring to the stated type of surgery and not really one single instance of surgery. Mass nouns do not take articles before them! :)
Oct. 5, 2022
Thank you very much for the explanation! I didn't know at all that surgery can be a mass noun.
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I found a sentence "The author recovers from emergency abdominal surgery in 2019. I found I found An article is not necessary, but you could add “an” if you wanted to. This would be grammatically correct and would sound natural, too. Bees is correct that “surgery” is a mass noun and therefore doesn’t require an article, but surgery is also a count noun, which does require an article. Both versions (mass noun and count noun) work in this sentence. Here’s a related article: https://www.occupationalenglishtest.org/blog-use-article-confused/ I found or I found this sentence, "The author recovers from emergency abdominal surgery in 2019, Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks. |
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