Partitive article
I was making some exercises on the Partitive article and came across a few examples I can't quite understand.
1. Elle rêve de changer du travail.
Why not "Elle rêve de changer le travail", what's the difference?
2. "Pour commencer a écrire il me manque du papier" and "Ces gens manquent d'instruction pour bien travailler."
In the first sentence we have "du papier", but "d'instruction" in the second one, although neither of them is negative.
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1. The sentence is weird, it doens't sound natural to me. Your sentence is totally correct, if talking about "work" in general.
2. Hmm. As a native speaker I didn't have to learn the rules but I'd say that it's because "papier" and "instruction" are uncountable nouns, so you need "de". (Je mange de la purée - this sentence also isn't negative but "purée" is uncountable)
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