1) My father is a businessman. or, you can say... 2) My father works AS a businessman. Hope that helps, Kind Regards, Choppy

Choppy has listed a few of the usual ways to express the idea that your father is a businessman. My father's occupation is a businessman....This is wrong. An occupation cannot be a person. My father's occupation is businessman....correct though unusual. If you consider businessman as a general term synonymous with the occupation it represents (business). then your sentence makes sense. Businessman here does not refer to an individual person; it refers to to all businessmen in general, who as a group represent the occupation. If used as a general term 'businessman' would NOT require an article. Example What a work of art is man. (Shakespeare)......"Man" is used as a general term for the entire human race My father's occupation is "businessman".....If you put the word between quotation marks, to indicate that you are using the term in a special way, a grammar teacher would have no reason for objection. :) More accurate would be... My father's occupation is business. My dentist's occupation is dentistry.

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My father is a businessman how to say this in formal way

my father is a busnessman or my father has his own business.