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Perfectshadow Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
I need an explanation
0 I am Toan from Vietnam. So there's something in my english book I don't understand ( this book is published for all the students in my country). 02 br
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00 "..... Communications? Without engineers there would be no television, no radio, no telephone 01 u 00 s 02 u 00 , no telegraph lines, no cables....." 02 br
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00 So the question is television, radio, and telephone are all countable nowns. Why is "telephone 01 u 00 s 02 u 00 " with "s" and "television" without "s". I need an explanation. Thanks a lot 0-
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00 "..... Communications? Without engineers there would be no television, no radio, no telephone 01 u 00 s 02 u 00 , no telegraph lines, no cables....." 02 br
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00 So the question is television, radio, and telephone are all countable nowns. Why is "telephone 01 u 00 s 02 u 00 " with "s" and "television" without "s". I need an explanation. Thanks a lot 0-
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0 Hi Toan, 02 br
00 I think the sentence mixes countable and non countable nouns ; which is what got you confused: 02 br
00 - radio and television would refer here as the corresponding media themselves, not the equipment for receiving such medias ; 02 br
00 - telephones and telegraph lines would refer to the physical devices, instead of the technology or media involved
00 I think the sentence mixes countable and non countable nouns ; which is what got you confused: 02 br
00 - radio and television would refer here as the corresponding media themselves, not the equipment for receiving such medias ; 02 br
00 - telephones and telegraph lines would refer to the physical devices, instead of the technology or media involved
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0 Hi Toan, 02 br
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00 The words "television" and "radio" are sometimes used to mean the system of television, or radio broadcasting, rather than the TVs or radios themselves. "Telephone" is not used in this way - you have to say the "telephone system" or the "phone network". The sentence could be written: 02 br
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00 "there would be no system of television
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00 The words "television" and "radio" are sometimes used to mean the system of television, or radio broadcasting, rather than the TVs or radios themselves. "Telephone" is not used in this way - you have to say the "telephone system" or the "phone network". The sentence could be written: 02 br
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00 "there would be no system of television
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