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You can use noun groups beginning with 'a' or 'an', or plural noun groups without a determiner, after 'be', 'become', 'remain', 'comprise', and 'form', to say what type of person or thing someone or something is.

• He is a geologist.
• Our friend Otto isn't an American.
• He is now a teenager.
• The air moved a little faster and became a light wind.
• They became farmers.
• Promises by MPs remained just promises.
• These arches formed a barrier to the tide.