Is it correct to use zero article after’mechanic’ and ‘hairdresser’ in this sentence?
Is it correct to not use an article before the occupations in this sentence?
Two men, George Major and Ron Smith were arrested yesterday.
How to make a perfect coffee?
How do you use appositive? Your article should follow the name of the profession, but you wouldn’t use it when the situation is reversed. Typically, you’d use
an article when the appositive follows the proper noun; note the article before the profession. Two
18-year-olds, a mechanic, Ron Smith, and a hairdresser, George Major, were arrested yesterday.
Two 18-year-olds, Ron Smith, a mechanic, and George Major, a hairdresser, were arrested yesterday.
Your example: Profession as appositive without article, but I would argue that, without the article, the uses here are best viewed as adjectival. In which case they are indeed allowed. Two 18-year-olds, Ron Smith, mechanic, and George Major, hairdresser, were arrested yesterday.
Assumption (concerned progeny) basic form, standard form, and actually more concise A pair of 18-year-olds, mechanic Ron Smith and hairdresser
George Major were arrested yesterday afternoon.
Depends on where the phrase is. Is it accurate and concise to speak French? If it was in the New Yorker they’d add an “h”. (Edit):
(F) *””E”_J.]”
