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Which one is a correct sentence? Or both wrong?

1. I'm wearing a new shoes to go to work today.

2. I wear the Nike shoes to go to work.
 

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Which one is a correct sentence, or are both wrong?

1. I'm wearing a new shoes to go to work today.
You can't say "a shoes". Instead, say, for example, "a new pair of shoes", "my new shoes", "my new pair of shoes".

2. I wear the Nike shoes to go to work.
That's grammatical and possible, but consider:
I wear my Nike shoes to go to work.
You can even say "my Nikes" instead of "my Nike shoes".
 

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Rethink about singular-plural and the use of article.
That's ungrammatical, incorrectly punctuated and vague.
Perhaps you meant "Think about the use of articles with nouns (singular and plural)".
 

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That's ungrammatical, incorrectly punctuated and vague.
Perhaps you meant "Think about the use of articles with nouns (singular and plural)".

What I meant was that there are two separate aspects of grammar that OP needs to look into - "singular-plural" and "articles".
 
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teechar,

What about below?

I'm wearing my new Nike shoes to go to work today.
 

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2. I wear the Nike shoes to go to work.

That's grammatical and possible.

I don't think that works as a standalone sentence.
 

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Would you care to tell us why you think that?

I wear the Nike shoes to go to work.


It begs the question: what Nike shoes? It would have been okay if the shoes had been mentioned before.
 

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It would have been okay if the shoes had been mentioned before.
And how do you know they weren't?
The OP just gave us a sentence, not the entire context.
 
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