Uses Of Articles Part-4

Part-4

(i) Sometimes an indefinite article is used before proper nouns to describe another person or a thing.

• The new king is a Solomon in his judgments. (=The new king is as wise as Solomon in his judgments)

• I will build a Taj Mahal in memory of my wife. (=I will build a beautiful building like the Taj Mahal.)

• The moneylender will not spare you. He is a Shylock. (=That is, as heartless as Shylock.)

(j) The indefinite article may come after many, such, quite and rather:

• Many a boy will like to marry a pretty girl like her.

• I am not such a fool as to give you money.

• The function was quite a success.

• It is rather a pity he has failed.

(k) A or an must be placed between the adjective and the noun when the adjective is preceded by so, as, too, how:

• It is not so big a victory as you think.

• I have never seen as big a fish as this.

• It is too difficult a question for me to solve.

• The mouse is too small an animal to fight a lion.

• We came to know only late how important a man he was.

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