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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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00I want to talk about teenagers like to go the shopping malls and parks when they go out on dates with their partners. Are the following sentences correctly mean that?02br
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001. Teenagers like to go out on dates in shopping malls and parks. 02br
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002. Shopping malls and parks become places for teenagers to go on dates.02br
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01. 01i 00Teenagers like to go on dates to shopping malls and parks 02i 00sounds a little more natural to me. 02br 02br 002.

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  • 01i 00Teenagers like to go on dates to shopping malls and parks 02i 00sounds a little more natural to me.
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  • Using "become" in this sentence is a little puzzling.
  • When do they become this?
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01. 01i00Teenagers like to go on dates to shopping malls and parks 02i00sounds a little more natural to me. "out on" is a little redundant, and you go on a date TO somewhere, usually.02br
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002. Using "become" in this sentence is a little puzzling. When do they become this? On the weekends, shopping malls become the place that teenagers hang out, for
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0Hi Grammar Geek,02br
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00Thanks a lot. Then how about this?02br
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00Shopping malls and parks have become places for teenagers dating?02br
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00Library is also a good place for teenagers dating.02br
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00( I want to say that teenagers like to stay at the library not for
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0 ( I want to say that teenagers like to stay at the library not for studying, but for talking and chatting with each other). 02br
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01i00Libraries have increasingly become places where teenagers socialize (by talking, chatting or dating), not just study. 02i0-
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0 I can't imagine anyone going on a date to a library. A date is an arranged social outing between two people who are romantically interested. Even if a couple were 'dating' I don't think they'd count a trip to the library as a 'date'? 0-

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