Question

it was awful tasting medicine ( make it exclamatory
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Answer 1

$\huge \sf {\orange {\underline {\pink{\underline {A᭄ɴsᴡᴇʀ࿐ \ :- }}}}}$

A᭄ɴsᴡᴇʀ࿐ :−

Definitely option two. If the original didn't hyphenate the compound it should have. We've relaxed immensely on what compounds you need to hyphenate, but when it's this easy to parse incorrectly it still should have the hyphen.

To get the right indefinite article you need to ask: Is it countable? If it is, it gets a/an. But if it isn't countable—which medicine isn't, you wouldn't say you took "five medicine"—you have a choice of using "some" or not using an article at at all.

Answer 2

Answer:

It was awful! tasting medicine .