man is mortal sounding same other sentence
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The answers given so far are correct, but there’s one other thing to point out as well.
If you think it sounds incorrect then it’s because you’re unaware of the fact that the word “man” can be both an individual noun and a collective noun.
So, if you were just talking about a man, as in one man in particular, then you would have to say “the man is mortal” or “a man is mortal”, depending on the context.
But because “man” can also be used as a collective noun (meaning you are referring to all people or mankind in general) then it doesn’t need an article. So in that case “man is mortal” is correct.
There’s an interesting anecdote from history where the two different meanings of the word “man” got quite famously jumbled up. In the first moon landing in 1969, the words Neil Armstrong was supposed to say were:
“That’s one small step for _a_ man, one giant leap for mankind”.
Note that there was supposed to be an “a” before “man”, meaning that the statement is saying that from the perspective of a single man, it was only one small step, while being a giant leap for mankind as a whole.
By accidentally leaving out the “a”, technically what he said was contradictory, because without the “a”, then “man” also means mankind. So if you’re being very pedantic, what he accidentally said in reality was essentially:
“That’s one small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind”.
To be fair, Armstrong himself insists that he did say “a man”, which has just been misheard and misquoted. The radio transmission was not very clear and is quite choppy, so it is entirely possible that a short word did indeed get cut out.
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If you think it sounds incorrect then it’s because you’re unaware of the fact that the word “man” can be both an individual noun and a collective noun.
So, if you were just talking about a man, as in one man in particular, then you would have to say “the man is mortal” or “a man is mortal”, depending on the context.
But because “man” can also be used as a collective noun (meaning you are referring to all people or mankind in general) then it doesn’t need an article. So in that case “man is mortal” is correct.
There’s an interesting anecdote from history where the two different meanings of the word “man” got quite famously jumbled up. In the first moon landing in 1969, the words Neil Armstrong was supposed to say were:
“That’s one small step for _a_ man, one giant leap for mankind”.
Note that there was supposed to be an “a” before “man”, meaning that the statement is saying that from the perspective of a single man, it was only one small step, while being a giant leap for mankind as a whole.
By accidentally leaving out the “a”, technically what he said was contradictory, because without the “a”, then “man” also means mankind. So if you’re being very pedantic, what he accidentally said in reality was essentially:
“That’s one small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind”.
To be fair, Armstrong himself insists that he did say “a man”, which has just been misheard and misquoted. The radio transmission was not very clear and is quite choppy, so it is entirely possible that a short word did indeed get cut out.
I hope this will help you
if not then comment me
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