Should I remove an before entrepreneur?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at
2:43 pm
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He was determined to teach these youngsters on how to earn a honest living by making jewelery. This is also in the hope that they can become an entrepreneur themselves.
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Entrepreneur should be plural here, so yes.
He was determined to teach these youngsters how to earn a honest living by making jewelery in the hope that they could become entrepreneurs themselves.
no., not normally. “can become entrepreneurs themselves”
Yes in your case since the sentence is not grammatically correct.
However, the word “an” is used before any noun that begins with a vowel or has a vowel sound. (ex. hour)
Entrepreneur (ON-tre-pre-neur) begins with a vowel sound, so you keep the an in a singular word case.
The clause in question is “they can become an entrepreneur themselves.”
they — subject of the clause
can become — verb of the clause, requires a compliment
an entrepreneur — compliment, should agree with the subject
themselves — reflexive pronoun as an appositive, acts as an intensifier.
No only should you drop the “an”, you need to make “entrepreneur” plural. It has to agree with “they”.
Also, one doesn’t “teach on something”. One “teaches something”. The phrase that describes the something might include the “on”. For example, he could teach a course on making jewelery. But, you don’t want or need the “on” the way that you have it above.
If the first sentence is in the past tense, why isn’t the second?
He was determined to teach these youngsters how to earn an honest living by making jewelery. This was also in the hope that they could become entrepreneurs themselves.