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Snappy Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

A/the parking lot for a visitor/visitors

Situation: I want to invite a friend of mine to my apartment. My friend can visit me by car.

In the above situation, are the following sentences okay?
1. You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor. (I feel that this sentence is okay if there is a visitor’s parking lot but my friend does not know about it.)
2. You can park your car in the parking lot for a visitor.
3. You can park your car in the parking lot for visitors. (I feel that 2. And 3. are okay if I want to denote that there is only one visitor’s parking lot.)

I would like to hear native speakers’ opinion.
Thank you in advance.
  

Top answer

Snappy 1. You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor. ) It doesn't have anything to do with your friend knowing about the parking lots.

— RayH

  • Snappy 1.
  • You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor.
  • ) It doesn't have anything to do with your friend knowing about the parking lots.
  • " Two and three are basically the same but not natural.
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Snappy1. You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor. (I feel that this sentence is okay if there is a visitor’s parking lot but my friend does not know about it.)
It doesn't have anything to do with your friend knowing about the parking lots. If there are two or more visitors' parking lots you could say this but it's more natural to say "You can park
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RayH
Snappy1. You can park your car in a parking lot for a visitor. (I feel that this sentence is okay if there is a visitor’s parking lot but my friend does not know about it.)

It doesn't have anything to do with your friend knowing about the parking lots. If there are two or more visitors' parking lots you could say this but it's
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SnappyIs it unnatural to say, "You can park in a visitor's parking lot"?
You can say that but it has nothing to do with his previous knowledge of the lots or how many there are. Even if this is his tenth visit to your place you could say the same thing and he would understand you to mean that it doesn't matter which of the lots he uses.

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RayH
SnappyIs it unnatural to say, "You can park in a visitor's parking lot"?

You can say that but it has nothing to do with his previous knowledge of the lots or how many there are. Even if this is his tenth visit to your place you could say the same thing and he would understand you to mean that it doesn't matter which of
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