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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Hello! I wanted to ask, which of the variants below is the right one?
I can see sea from my house.
I can see a sea from my house.
I can see the sea from my house.
I can see sea from my house.
I can see a sea from my house.
I can see the sea from my house.
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No native speaker would say the first because of the homonyms. The second is odd. It implies you can see a large body of water but you don't know which one.
- No native speaker would say the first because of the homonyms.
- The second is odd.
- It implies you can see a large body of water but you don't know which one.
- The third one is what you want.
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No native speaker would say the first because of the homonyms.
The second is odd. It implies you can see a large body of water but you don't know which one.
The third one is what you want.
The second is odd. It implies you can see a large body of water but you don't know which one.
The third one is what you want.
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I agree with deadrat although I think that there're perfectly legitimate contexts for the second sentence as well. For example, if you want to make the listener/reader know that what you see from your house is a sea and not say a forest, a mouintain, a meadow etc, then it's quite normal to use an a (and this certainly doesn't suggest that you don't know what sea it is).
Still, many nativ
Still, many nativ
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