The phrase "a lad from a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when introducing a character or person, often in a narrative or descriptive context.
Example: "He was a lad from a small town, dreaming of bigger adventures beyond the horizon."
Alternatives: "a boy from a" or "a young man from a".
Not bad for a lad from a poor family in Denver who, at the age of one, lost his father in a railroad accident.
White had taken a lad from a council estate (White, too, had grown up in one, in Leeds) and introduced him to a different world.
Compact and evenly built, with thin lips and jowls marking his cheery face, wearing jeans, a dark leather jacket and shaggy hair, he looks and sounds less like a prince of Denmark or an English monarch than a lad from a rugby team who would be more comfortable with a pint of Guinness in his hand than the coffee cup he now holds.
The tale of a lad from a North-East coal-mining town battling peer scorn and family expectation to achieve a dream of being a ballet dancer is vying with the likes of "Gladiator", a big-budget bloody Roman epic, predictably up for 12 Oscars.It looks like a match dreamt up by a script-writer; plucky little Brit-film squares up to Yankee studio giant.
"So as a lad from a poor background I decided to concentrate most for my art work on the harsh environment of the miner, to preserve our heritage, now long gone".
Without his ISU degree, says Stott, "How else would a lad from a small island off the coast of Scotland come to work at the heart of the U.S. aerospace industry?" The $88 billion worldwide space industry is changing.
And the rest, of course, for a lad from an Ellesmere Port council house who left school at 15, is history.
A lad from Afghanistan turned in this composition: "A swimming girl a strong army and zoo and a beautiful girl.
But there are also slick-looking grammar school girls in blazers, fresh-faced and neatly polo-shirted boys, and a lad from Grimsby with a glowing red Mohican.
First heard used with a provocative wiggle ("Do you like my new kecks?") by a lad from Leeds on whom I had a crush.
kecks First heard used with a provocative wiggle ("Do you like my new kecks?") by a lad from Leeds on whom I had a crush.
