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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

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Hi
Please help me with this.
This can be caused by earth quake volcanic eruption or asteroid falling on the ground.
Do we an article a before asteroid?
What about using articles before earth quake, volcanic eruption?
  

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Hi That's a good question. Without thinking, I would say... - This can be caused by earthquake, volcanic eruption or an asteroid falling on the ground But I don't know why asteroid has an article but the other two do not!

— Dave_anon

  • Hi That's a good question.
  • Without thinking, I would say...
  • - This can be caused by earthquake, volcanic eruption or an asteroid falling on the ground But I don't know why asteroid has an article but the other two do not!
  • Possibly because the asteroid is part of a noun phrase.
  • For example...
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Hi

That's a good question. Without thinking, I would say...

- This can be caused by earthquake, volcanic eruption or an asteroid falling on the ground

But I don't know why asteroid has an article but the other two do not!

Possibly because the asteroid is part of a noun phrase. For example...

- This can be caused by earthquake, asteroid, or a volcanic
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This can be caused by (an) earthquake volcanic-eruption, or (an) asteroid, falling on the ground.
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SurferThis can be caused by (an) earthquake volcanic-eruption, or (an) asteroid, falling on the ground.
No.

There must be a comma after 'earthquake'. There is no hyphen between 'volcanic' and 'eruption''.
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fivejedjon SurferThis can be caused by (an) earthquake volcanic-eruption, or (an) asteroid, falling on the ground.

No.There must be a comma after 'earthquake'. There is no hyphen between 'volcanic' and 'eruption''.
I took earthquake to be modifying volcanic-eruption, that is, it's talking about volcanic eruptions that accompany eart
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