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Son James Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Ha Noi-based high school?
Please look at this sentence.
"Last week,Ha Noi-based Loung The Vinh Private high School made a bold move by becoming the first school to ban students from using Facebook to defame or insult others."
[Q1]
For Ha noi-based Loung The Vinh Private High School,
Is it the same expression as "Loung The Vinh Private high school in Ha Noi"? Then, sometimes can I express like this?
I went to a Busan city-based high school?
[Q2]
Secondly, why did writer use big letters for "private high school"? Do we have to write big letters when writing "high school","middle school", "elementary school","day-care" and so on?
Thank you for your answers in advance.
"Last week,Ha Noi-based Loung The Vinh Private high School made a bold move by becoming the first school to ban students from using Facebook to defame or insult others."
[Q1]
For Ha noi-based Loung The Vinh Private High School,
Is it the same expression as "Loung The Vinh Private high school in Ha Noi"? Then, sometimes can I express like this?
I went to a Busan city-based high school?
[Q2]
Secondly, why did writer use big letters for "private high school"? Do we have to write big letters when writing "high school","middle school", "elementary school","day-care" and so on?
Thank you for your answers in advance.
Top answer
Hi [Q1] I think you are right to question this. -based" really only applies if the organisation could be somewhere else: - My London-based company is thinking of moving to New York I went to a school in London, but I wouldn't call the school "London-based" - it just was in London. It was a London school Some private schools could, I suppose, move to a completely different place.
- Hi [Q1] I think you are right to question this.
- -based" really only applies if the organisation could be somewhere else: - My London-based company is thinking of moving to New York I went to a school in London, but I wouldn't call the school "London-based" - it just was in London.
- It was a London school Some private schools could, I suppose, move to a completely different place.
- But usually a school belongs to its local community: it's not based there, it just is there.
- Smithtown Junior School is usually in Smithtown - it couldn't be based five hundred miles away.
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Hi
[Q1]
I think you are right to question this. The phrase "...-based" really only applies if the organisation could be somewhere else:
- My London-based company is thinking of moving to New York
I went to a school in London, but I wouldn't call the school "London-based" - it just was in London. It was a London school
Some private schools could, I suppose,
[Q1]
I think you are right to question this. The phrase "...-based" really only applies if the organisation could be somewhere else:
- My London-based company is thinking of moving to New York
I went to a school in London, but I wouldn't call the school "London-based" - it just was in London. It was a London school
Some private schools could, I suppose,
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Hi,
Ha Noi-based is an awkward and unnatural phrase. Say . . . in Ha Noi.
Loung The Vinh Private High School The capital letters tell us that this is the name of the school, eg what you see on the sign outside it.
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Ha Noi-based is an awkward and unnatural phrase. Say . . . in Ha Noi.
Loung The Vinh Private High School The capital letters tell us that this is the name of the school, eg what you see on the sign outside it.
If y
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Thank you so much for your answer. It is so much helpful. Thanks,Mr.Dave_Anon
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