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Tue 3 Oct, 2017 11:17 pm
Here is a small question about the use of article before the word "captain."
According to my dictionary, we don't put any article before the word.
-- She was captain of the hockey team.
-- He has just been made team captain.
So, how about this one?
1) If he had joined the club, he would be captain now.
2) If he had joined the club, he would be a captain now.
Is 2) grammatically acceptable?
@SHC,
I never heard of such a convention, but maybe I missed something. You could say She was captain of the hockey team, she was the captain of the hockey team.
I think it kind of depends if there can be more than one captain. If you join a soccer league where there are, say, 8 teams, then there are 8 team captains. So saying, "She became a captain at age 20." is perfectly acceptable.
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