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Skeime
945 days ago
Because
scissors
is plural, which does not have an indefinite article. You can ask for
scissors
, like you can ask for
documents
. (And you cannot ask for
a documents
, only for
a document
.)
1 comments
tuatoru
944 days ago
A pair of scissors, a pair of trousers. I shortened the trousers with scissors.
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