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Nina_Nia Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

A cat's survival story(Based on a true story)

Hello,

Could you proofread this story ,please?

A homeless cat had three kittens and among those three was our Marchioness. As a kitten, she fell from an attic of a nine-storey bulding into a ventilation shaft. We heard her crying, but we were not able to find out where the sounds of a crying kitty was coming from. Finally, one of our neighbors broke his kitchen's wall open and got her. She is currently living with us and is very happy.

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A homeless cat had three kittens and among those three was our Marchioness. An independent clause introduced by "and" takes a comma: A homeless cat had three kittens, and among those three was our Marchioness. You should have known that, to judge by the level of your English.

— Enoon

  • A homeless cat had three kittens and among those three was our Marchioness.
  • An independent clause introduced by "and" takes a comma: A homeless cat had three kittens, and among those three was our Marchioness.
  • You should have known that, to judge by the level of your English.
  • Nice sentence, though.
  • As a kitten, she fell from an attic of a nine-storey bulding into a ventilation shaft.
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A homeless cat had three kittens and among those three was our Marchioness.

An independent clause introduced by "and" takes a comma: A homeless cat had three kittens, and among those three was our Marchioness. You should have known that, to judge by the level of your English. Nice sentence, though.

As a kitten, she
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So if there is only one possible thing as in the sentence above, I mean the attic and it is mentioned for the first time I should still use 'the' and not 'a' or 'an', right? I just thought that since it was the first mention I should have used 'an attic'. But if there are more than one attics and I mention one of them for the first time should I use the definite or indefinite article?
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That is a hard question. The English article is a slippery thing, and I am not an ESL teacher, so I don't know the rules they teach.

If the case was "That house has an attic and a basement. There are bats in the attic." your rule would be right, but you could just start out, "There are bats in the attic of that house" with the natural presumption that the house has an attic. Our building
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