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Hela Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Exercise on articles

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01b00Correct the mistakes in the following paragraph02b00. 02br
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00The first time I visited Spain I couldn’t speak a word of Spanish. My money ran out after a few weeks so I had to come up with quick way of making cash if I was going to stay in the country. But I was lucky. Little foreigners got the chance to work on Spanish firm in the winter, but I did. By the chance, I met Luis in a street market. When he heard I needed somewhere to stay he said I could stay with his family and help out with jobs like cleaning the farming equipments. I eagerly accepted. Both his parents were wonderful to me. However I had a little time to learn Spanish because Luis spoke English all time. 02br
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01b00CORRECTION02b00 : 02br
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00The first time I visited Spain I couldn’t speak a word of Spanish. My money ran out after a few weeks so I had to come up with 01b00A02b00 quick way of making cash if I was going to stay in the country. But I was lucky. 01b00FEW02b00 foreigners got the chance to work on 01b00A02b00 Spanish firm in 01b00X02b00 (IS “01b00the02b00 winter” INCORRECT HERE?) winter, but I did. By 01b00X02b00 chance, I met Luis in a street market. When he heard I needed somewhere to stay he said I could stay with his family and help out with 01b00A JOB02b00 like cleaning 01b00X02b00 farming equipments. I eagerly accepted. Both his parents were wonderful to me. However I had 01b00X02b00 little time to learn Spanish because Luis spoke English all 01b00THE02b00 time. 02br
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00Thanks a million, 02br
00Hela 0-
  

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0 To hela, 02br 02br 00I would correct it this way:- 02br 02br 00"The first time I visited Spain I couldn’t speak a word of Spanish. My money ran out after a few weeks so I had to come up with a quick way of making cash if I WERE going to stay in the country ANY LONGER. I was lucky.

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0 To hela, 02br
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00I would correct it this way:- 02br
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00"The first time I visited Spain I couldn’t speak a word of Spanish. My money ran out after a few weeks so I had to come up with a quick way of making cash if I WERE going to stay in the country ANY LONGER. I was lucky. Few foreigners GET the chance to work on a Spanish FARM in winter but I di
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0 he OFFERED THAT I could stay with his family and help out with JOBS like cleaning farming equipments01b0100,02b00WHICH I eagerly accepted. 05002br
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00paco 010id15
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0 I would amend it slightly differently in one or two places. [] denotes a deletion: 02br
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00"The first time I visited Spain I couldn’t speak a word of Spanish. My money ran out after a few weeks so I had to come up with [01font02font00a] quick way of [raising] cash if I was going to stay in the country. But I was lucky. [Few] fore
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0 Thank you all for your contribution. 02br
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00MrP, 02br
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001) Are there also pbs of punctuation in this text? If yes, what are they, please? 02br
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002) Is it wrong to say "in THE winter"? When do we add a definite article in front of a season? 02br
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003) "equipment" is uncountable so it doesn't take
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0 Hi, 02br
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00With regard to your second question, I think "the" is not required there. 02br
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00When you are discussing things in general, you normally use zero article with plural and uncountable nouns, but note that when you want to be specific, you can use "the". 02br
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0 Hello Hela 02br
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00As for the punctuation, my try is like below. . 02br
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00The first time I visited Spain01b0100,02b00 I couldn't speak a word of Spanish. My money ran out after a few weeks01b0100,02b00 so I had to come up with a quick way of raising cash if I was goi
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0 Thank you all for your help. 02br
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0 Hello Hela 02br
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00Paco has nicely dealt with the punctuation; here are a few examples of when (not) to use 'the' with seasons: 02br
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001. The flowering of our forest trees is a phenomenon that does not as a rule attract attention, but their fruiting or seed-bearing becomes patent to all who visit the woods 01u00in (the) autumn02u
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0 Hi, Mr. P 02br
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00I am just wondering whether the article "the" in following cases could be omitted and, also is there any case that you could use the indifinite article "a/an" instead of the "the" in such cases. 02br
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001. (the) creation of (the) Universe. 02br
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0 Hello v/c 02br
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00I can't think of a context where you could omit 'the' in those cases. You could use 'a' in #1: 02br
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001. The creation of a universe. 02br
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00But in #2, it sounds odd to replace the first 'the' with 'a'. (The second 'the' could be replaced.) 02br
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00MrP 0-
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