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Hole One a New See Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Exercise, exercises

Hi everybody,

Can I ask: 'What kind of exercises have you tried during your pieces of exercise so far?' ?

The expected answer would be something ease, something like this:

I've tried push-ups, pull-ups, forward rolls, and so forth.

Thanks for your help in advance.
  

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' ? No. Try this: What kind of exercises have you tried during your training so far?

— Mister Micawber

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Hole One a New SeeCan I ask: 'What kind of exercises have you tried during your pieces of exercise so far?' ?
No. Try this:

What kind of exercises have you tried during your training so far?
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Thank you, I will Emotion: smile

Is it also a grammatical problem, or the bad version simply sounds awkward?
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It is a vocabulary/structure problem: 'pieces of exercise' has no meaning.
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Could I instantiate it somehow? I try to instantiate this meaning: "physical or mental activity that you do to stay healthy or become stronger". I would like to refer to the occasions of this physical activity.

I just thought, I will be able to instantiate it with 'piece(s) of' if it is uncountable.
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There is no natural need to refer to individual occasions. Nobody knows 'instantiate', either.
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Ooops, sorry. 'Instantiate' is in the terminology of programming. I wanted to say: 'make it countable'.

So (if I understand well), 'What kind of exercises have you tried during your pieces of exercise so far?' would be good but it would sound awkward, wouldn't it?
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Hole One a New SeeSo (if I understand well), 'What kind of exercises have you tried during your pieces of exercise so far?' would be good but it would sound awkward, wouldn't it?
Yes, right. That's why I substituted 'training'.
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Would be the word 'piece(s)' grammatically correct if you wanted to determine the number of occasions? So I ask you about the grammatical exactness of the following sentence:

'What kind of exercises did you try/do during the last two pieces of your training/exercise?'
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You cannot try or do anything during a "piece of something" because "during" has a time-related aspect to it but a "piece" does not. Furthermore, a "piece" doesn't go well with "training". This would be better:

What kind of exercises did you try during/in the last two phases of your training?
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