Re: Indefinite article

Originally Posted by
sergeyrais
Is it right to put an indefinite article before a phrase with a noun modified by a genitive which includes a plural noun?
e.g. We had a two weeks' holiday in Greece.
There was a thirty minutes' lesson yesterday.
Should the lack of the indefinite articles in the above sentences be considered as a grammar mistake?
Neither of those sentences should contain the indefinite article.
We had a two-week holiday in Greece.
We had two weeks' holiday in Greece.
There was a thirty-minute lesson yesterday.
(This cannot be converted in the same way as the first sentence).
Remember - correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing make posts much easier to read.