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Natybrazil Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

correction!!

Hey!
Could you just help me correct the following:

1) Make the students familiar with THE weather vocabulary. Is it really necessary to have the definite article in this sentence?

2) Necessary material or material necessary?

Thanks a lot!
  

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1. Using "the weather vocabulary" suggests the existence of several lists of various other types of vocabulary, for example, and thus "the" could have been used to refer to a specific list. The broader context would clarify that.

— Yankee

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  • Using "the weather vocabulary" suggests the existence of several lists of various other types of vocabulary, for example, and thus "the" could have been used to refer to a specific list.
  • The broader context would clarify that.
  • Without the word "the", the reference would be less specific and more general.
  • 2.
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1. Using "the weather vocabulary" suggests the existence of several lists of various other types of vocabulary, for example, and thus "the" could have been used to refer to a specific list. The broader context would clarify that.
Without the word "the", the reference would be less specific and more general.

2. Either word order is possible. Do you have a specific sentence?
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2) There is no specific sentece for this one. It is part of the list, example: Necessary material: board, chalk, stereo, etc

Thanks a lot.
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