[Grammar] (Use of articles) Dickens is famous as a novelist and AN/NO ARTICLE essayist.

[Sahil Dhankhar]

This is not my homework.

If this sentence were like "Dickens was a novelist and AN/NO ARTICLE essayist", I believe there would be a one time use of article and it would be correct to say "Dickens was a novelist and essayist".

But here there is some change in the structure of the sentence, so I am not sure. Kindly help me to find the correct sentence out of the following.

1:- Dickens is famous as a novelist and an essayist.
2:- Dickens is famous as a novelist and essayist.


Thank you in advance.

 

[bhaisahab]

2. is more natural.

 

[Sahil Dhankhar]

Bhaisahab, is sentence 1 also correct?

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes. If it had been wrong, bhai would have said so.

 

[Tdol]

When people say that something is more natural, they don't necessarily mean that the alternative is wrong, but the natural form is (much) more common. Sometimes a form may technically be correct, but very few people would use it. It is generally a good idea to go for the form that is correct and natural. :up: