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When the food was ready, the hawker wished me a “Happy Chinese New Year” as she passed me the plate of regularly black carrot cake.
Is the "a" redundant?
Thanks.
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It is: you either discard the quotation marks and keep the a or scrap the a and keep the quote.
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Koh Elaine wrote:When the food was ready, the hawker wished me a “Happy Chinese New Year” as she passed me the plate of regularly black carrot cake.
Is the "a" redundant?
Thanks. I don't find it redundant. The hawker didn't just wish you "Happy New Year", but a specific "Happy New Year", a "Happy Chinese New Year"; the year of the pig.
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Koh Elaine wrote:When the food was ready, the hawker wished me a “Happy Chinese New Year” as she passed me the plate of regularly black carrot cake.
Is the "a" redundant?
Thanks. I don't think it is redundant. It is like saying "She wished me a Merry Christmas"
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Quote:...plate of regularly black carrot cake...
I've often eaten black (and white) carrot cake in Singapore but never 'regularly black carrot cake'.
just sayin'
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FounDit wrote:I don't find it redundant. Pablo Bernal wrote:I don't think it is redundant. That makes three of us.
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