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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Greens

1i00From the plane, we can see lots of greens in Tokyo.02i02br
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00I wanted to mean a lot of trees by saying 'greens'02br
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0Hi LiJ02br 00English is so inexact that it might be a good idea to say 01i 00a lot of greenery02i 00. 05002br 00CB 010id1

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0Hi LiJ02br
00English is so inexact that it might be a good idea to say 01i00a lot of greenery02i00. Otherwise some people could think you were talking about golf.05002br
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00Or spinach.02br
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00You could say '01i00a lot of 01b00green02b02i00', which would include trees, parks, shrubbery, lawns (oops! no lawns in Tokyo!), etc.0-
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01cite10Cool Breeze12cite10Hi LiJ 12br
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10some people could think you were talking about golf.15012br
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10Golf was certainly my first thought!030srchttp://www.EnglishForward.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif
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0Thanks, CB, Mister, and GG. 02br
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00'Golf' is actually what I expected to hear and 'spinach' is interesting.02br
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00I got 'a lot of greenery/green.'02br
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00How about 'a lot of green areas'?02br
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00Thanks02br
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1i00green areas02i00 is fine0-
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