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echo: english_tutor
to: ALL
from: ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
date: 2019-09-18 14:11:00
subject: A rule needed :)

Hi, all!

Reading a novel "The standard of living", by Dorothy Parker, I read this:

-----Beginning of the citation-----
Annabel and Midge had been best friends almost from the day that Midge
had found a job as stenographer with the firm that employed Annabel.
----- The end of the citation -----

How can I explain to my conscience the absence of "a" before "stenographer"? ;)

Bye, all!
Alexander Koryagin

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