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How can the absence of the indefinite article before lovely woman be justified ?

Then down the coast, tacking close to shore, slowly swam a little
sloop, white-winged like some snowy sea fowl....

This is correct although it's not the same as "did you go to school yesterday?" They're used in different situations.

Googling for the fragment "where are there any" doesn't make "where are there any books?" a valid question.[/quote]

The grammaticality of the expression can't depend on what the object is. The...

Googling for the fragment "where are there any" doesn't make "where are there any books?" a valid question.

In PaulB's example the question "Where are there any books on the floor?" is not a normal question but a challenge in the form of a rhetorical question, defying the mother to find books on the floor....

I can't think of a situation in which that question would arise, in fact it doesn't make any sense.

Doesn't it seem odd to use existential there in questions with where?
What do you think of it?[/quote]

The questions seem a bit clumsy because the asker is really asking two questions: does...

sperk, one person claims he ran into such an expression on the internet.
That's why I asked.

And yes, articles have never been my strong side. Thanks for the correction.

emeraldeyez, does the following phrase sound natural for you (a native english speaker)?

It doesn't sound logical to me.

Is listen the normal word in this context? No