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Victork Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Alcohol
Hello my friends!! Is this okay (I am editing something for a friend, his English is even worse than mine):
Yes, Mario was a terrible drinker. It was well known he had been having a drinking problem. It was so bad that by the end of that decade, alcohol had ruined his face, body.
Alcohol? Or the alcohol? I go with alcohol. Alcohol has already been mentioned, but it still remains alcohol on a general level. Not a particular type of alcohol (that he consumed on a certain night or at a party), but alcohol in general that ruined his face.
I think: either "alcohol" or "all the alcohol [he had been consuming]". But better not "the alcohol".
What do you think?!
Yes, Mario was a terrible drinker. It was well known he had been having a drinking problem. It was so bad that by the end of that decade, alcohol had ruined his face, body.
Alcohol? Or the alcohol? I go with alcohol. Alcohol has already been mentioned, but it still remains alcohol on a general level. Not a particular type of alcohol (that he consumed on a certain night or at a party), but alcohol in general that ruined his face.
I think: either "alcohol" or "all the alcohol [he had been consuming]". But better not "the alcohol".
What do you think?!
Top answer
I probably would put no article there. by the end of that decade, alcohol had ruined his face and body.
- I probably would put no article there.
- by the end of that decade, alcohol had ruined his face and body.
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I probably would put no article there.
...by the end of that decade, alcohol had ruined his face and body.
...by the end of that decade, alcohol had ruined his face and body.
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