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Post by vims »

Hello Alan,

Here's a sentence from the book Intermediate English Grammar by Raymond Murphy.

We saw Rose in town a few days ago.

In the sentence above the word town is a singular countable noun. Why is there no article before it?

Thanks a lot.
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You could grammatically insert 'the', but it would be redundant since 'in town' is a fixed expression.
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