New McCormick Woods managers have plan to get more people on the links
kitsapsun.com/news/2012/jan/ … to-get-on/
Mavs have plan to get him up to game speed
mavsblog.dallasnews.com/archives … vs-ha.html
Hi,
Do you normally say “I have a plan to…” or “I have plan to…”?
Thank you.
You can’t say “I have plan to”. It needs an article.
Those examples you sent are from the media - it’s common in headlines such as newspapers to miss out words such as articles for impact.
You wouldn’t do that though if you were writing normally or speaking.
Hi Justin,
IMHO:
If you do not put an article before the noun it means you are pertaining to many.
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I have plans to…= Many plans…
If you are pertaning to only one plan you should add an article.
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I have a plan to …
In addition, news writers have minimal space to write their news stories and I think that is the reason why they need to omit some words.
Julius
Please correct me if I am wrong
Actually, AmE speakers normally use ‘plans’ even when it is just one plan:
Do you have plans for this weekend?
Yes, I have plans to finish painting my house.
Ah really? I did not know that. Thank you so much Mentor