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Asil Ibrahim Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Choosing between words

1- I have got many (chairs/ cases), so will you help me carry them upstairs?

2- This good and near (hotel/accommodation) to stay in.


If you have to choose between chairs and cases in the first sentence, which one will you choose? I will go for "cases", but I think we can use "chairs" in some contexts, do you agree with me?


In the second sentence, if I have to choose between hotel and accommodation, I will go for accommodation because it is uncountable, but hotel is countable and we need to use either "the" or "a". Does what I mentioned make sense to everyone? To be honest, sentence number two does not sound correct to me because the verb is missing, do you agree with me??


Thanks in advance

  

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1. As far as English is concerned, "chairs" and "cases" are both possible. Maybe you are supposed to guess that someone is more likely to have cases to carry upstairs than chairs.

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  • As far as English is concerned, "chairs" and "cases" are both possible.
  • Maybe you are supposed to guess that someone is more likely to have cases to carry upstairs than chairs.
  • I would like to see the exact wording of the instructions for this question.
  • " is not the most natural in conversational English.
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1. As far as English is concerned, "chairs" and "cases" are both possible. Maybe you are supposed to guess that someone is more likely to have cases to carry upstairs than chairs. I would like to see the exact wording of the instructions for this question.

"I have got many ..." is not the most natural in conversational English. We would say "I've got a lot of ...", for example.

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