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Default Omission of articles by native speakers
Hello,
I have noticed that native speakers, for some inexplicable reason, tend to (apparently randomly) omit indefinite articles before countable nouns. What is more, using an indefinite article in front of every singular countable noun makes our speech sound awkward.
How shall we (and can we) ever master the art of doing it or are these just mistakes made by native speakers which occur so frequently it makes us believe that kind of speech is natural?

Examples of such omissions:

1. 1f somebody is successful that is reason enough for me to listen to their advice.

2. A student of mine appeared with bottle of medicine.
Last edited by Beatrix : Jan 11th, 2013 at 02:46 pm. Reason: I added "is" in one of the sentences
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