Correct as general statements?
Hi. Please help. Are these correct as general statements? I'm particularly purplexed as to the use of the definite articles in the sentences.
1. We wear the raincoat to keep the body dry in the rain.
2. They grow it on their bodies to help them go through the wet land.
3. People make a lantern with the pumpkin and decorate the house with it.
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Here's what I would say. 1. We wear a raincoat to keep our body dry in the rain.
- Here's what I would say.
- 1.
- We wear a raincoat to keep our body dry in the rain.
- We idiomatically speak of 'the rain', probably since everyone is aware of it.
- 2.
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Here's what I would say.
1. We wear a raincoat to keep our body dry in the rain. We idiomatically speak of 'the rain', probably since everyone is aware of it.
2. They grow it on their bodies to help them go through wet land.
3. People make a lant
0Thank you. Now I find your no. 3 correction very interesting (if I could it put it that way.) I think you used the singular "their house" to indicate their individual houses.
Your no. 3 correction:
3. People make a lantern from a pumpkin and decorate their house with it.
If I am correct, can you give me a reason why this definition I came across in the Collins COBUILD
0Because the writer is thinking that each animal has only one stomach and one mouth.
0Thank you again. I just spotted a spelling mistake in the definition of the word "ruminate" from the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary that I wrote in the last post. It should be "stomach," not "stoamch."
the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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