MrPernickety Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
Pleasure v.s. a pleasure
Hi,
From a native speaker's point of view, which version sounds better?
1. It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you Darkwing Duck !!!
2. It gives me a great pleasure to introduce to you Darkwing Duck !!!
3. It's been pleasure frequenting your establishment
4. It's been a pleasure frequenting your establishment
5. We take pride in our product
6. We take a pride in our product
(to me, 2, 4 and 5 are o.k., but I'm having doubts)
Thank you !
From a native speaker's point of view, which version sounds better?
1. It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you Darkwing Duck !!!
2. It gives me a great pleasure to introduce to you Darkwing Duck !!!
3. It's been pleasure frequenting your establishment
4. It's been a pleasure frequenting your establishment
5. We take pride in our product
6. We take a pride in our product
(to me, 2, 4 and 5 are o.k., but I'm having doubts)
Thank you !
Top answer
Close. It's 1, 4 and 5. 1 is just like 5 - uncountable.
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Close. It's 1, 4 and 5.
1 is just like 5 - uncountable. Whereas the frequenting of the establishment was a finite pleasure, beginning on each occasion when the speaker entered its doors and ending as he left.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Darkwing Duck.
Thank you, Mr. Pernickety. It's certainly been a pleasure meeting and working with you all during this co
1 is just like 5 - uncountable. Whereas the frequenting of the establishment was a finite pleasure, beginning on each occasion when the speaker entered its doors and ending as he left.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Darkwing Duck.
Thank you, Mr. Pernickety. It's certainly been a pleasure meeting and working with you all during this co
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Thank you, Del
I thought that "pleasure" should be followed by "a", until I saw a series of Darkwing Duck, where sentence #1 was uttered, and it threw me a little
I thought that "pleasure" should be followed by "a", until I saw a series of Darkwing Duck, where sentence #1 was uttered, and it threw me a little
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