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Common Errors with Adjectives - Part III
Incorrect: We live in city.
Correct: We live in a city.
Explanation
A singular common noun (e.g. city, state, country, boy, girl, teacher etc.) takes the
article a/an before it. But if the common noun refers to a particular person or thing it
requires the definite article the whether the noun is singular or plural.
Compare: We live in a city. (Here we use the indefinite article because we are not
referring to any particular city.)
The city is very big. (Here we use the definite article (the) because we are referring
to a particular city that has already been mentioned in a previous sentence.)
Incorrect: He is best player.
Correct: He is the best player.
Incorrect: She is a most intelligent girl in the class.
Correct: She is the most intelligent girl in the class.
Explanation
Adjectives in the superlative degree takes the article the before them.
Incorrect: The London is big city.
Correct: London is a big city.
Incorrect: I live in the Mumbai.
Correct: I live in Mumbai.
Explanation
Both London and Mumbai are proper nouns because they are the names of
particular cities. Proper nouns do not take articles before them.
Remember that a noun can be proper in one sentence and common in another
sentence; so it is useless to label a particular noun as proper or common.