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French Grammar - Omission of the article with nouns following the verbs être, demeurer, devenir, élire, nommer, rester
When a noun alone follows the verbs être 'be', demeurer 'stay', devenir 'become', élire 'elect', nommer 'appoint', rester 'stay', the article is omitted:
- Sa mère est ingénieur
Her mother is an engineer
- Il est devenu architecte très tôt
He became an architect early on
- Elle est restée maire de la commune
She remained mayor of the village
- On l'a élu président
He was elected president
- Pierre a été nommé Directeur des Achats
Pierre was appointed Purchasing Director
But when the noun is modified, for example by an adjective, the article is not omitted:
- Depuis, il est devenu un architecte innovateur
Since then, he has become an innovatory architect
- Pierre a été nommé le premier Directeur des Achats
Pierre was appointed as the first Purchasing Director
Once you've mastered this lesson, take a look at these related pages: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Stressed pronouns standing alone & de when an adjective precedes the noun.
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- Stressed pronouns with même, aussi, seul, autres, tous and numerals
- Compound Tenses
- Types of adverbs
- Easy future
- Past participles used as adjectives with the verb "être"
- The plural indefinite article des
- Differences in the use of numbers in French and English once twice
- Meaning of tout à l'heure
- Nouns
- encore VS toujours
- Omission of the article in noun constructions linked by de
- Subject verb agreement when subject quantifiers are present
- Double object constructions with no preposition
- Time adverbs
- Adverbs ending in —ment derived from words no longer in the language