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I've seen the following sentence in the book which teaches English as a corrected sentence. My question is why the word passenger -in the following sentence- is referred as a singular while almost never airliners isn't aimed for a singular passenger... therefore should it not be "passengers airliners"? In addition why there is not an indefinite article before the word 'long'?
"To fly big passenger airliners calls for long training and experience"
Judicious Allure
Posted 2016-10-29T20:17:52.720
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"duplicate" - are you serious? – Judicious Allure – 2016-10-29T21:01:33.983
Yes, it is the same question in every respect. Read the duplicate carefully. You ask about passenger(s), and the duplicate asks about office, salary, and product. – P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica – 2016-10-29T22:04:55.267
This method of determination whether a question is a duplicate or not, makes the place here so strict and inconvenient to ask here questions. I know that duplicate question is when someone sees someone else question and then copy it more or less. This is definitely not the case here.
Anyway, where did you see there referring to the second question here about the article before the word passenger? – Judicious Allure – 2016-10-29T22:46:56.543
But in this case, your question is answered perfectly by the duplicate! It's nothing to do with copying anything. A little more searching on your part would have found it, but I do agree that our search facility is not always very efficient. Even so, you can see why we don't want many duplicates of elementary questions, can't you? (Your second question—about what article to use before an uncountable noun like training —is also duplicated in countless other questions.) – P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica – 2016-10-29T23:06:13.983