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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Listing names
1. When I see a list of words that follows the words such as "such as," I expect them to follow a certain pattern or give a sign of parallelism. But this doesn't seem to follow what I consider a norm. Is this OK? Do you have a general recommendation for this type of thing?
... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
2. When you list names of some places, I expect them to follow some sort of pattern like the one before, but this?
Why does the name of one island have the article and the other don't? I think if a business like a tavern has a person's name as part of its business name, an article is not used, either in a normal sentence situation or in a list form like below. Do you have a general recommendation for this type of situation?
Places to visit
- The Marina XXX Island
- Joe's Tavern
- XXX Island
- xxx Channel Boat Ramp
... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
2. When you list names of some places, I expect them to follow some sort of pattern like the one before, but this?
Why does the name of one island have the article and the other don't? I think if a business like a tavern has a person's name as part of its business name, an article is not used, either in a normal sentence situation or in a list form like below. Do you have a general recommendation for this type of situation?
Places to visit
- The Marina XXX Island
- Joe's Tavern
- XXX Island
- xxx Channel Boat Ramp
Top answer
1. This is OK; it is a list of nouns: . offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
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- This is OK; it is a list of nouns: .
- offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
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- -- It is case by case; some islands, businesses, countries, etc, have articles, while others do not.
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1.This is OK; it is a list of nouns:... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
2. Do you have a general recommendation for this type of situation?-- It is case by case; some islands, businesses, countries, etc, have articles, while others do not. List them as their owners, gazetteers or other authoritativ
1.This is OK; it is a list of nouns:... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
2. Do you have a general recommendation for this type of situation?-- It is case by case; some islands, businesses, countries, etc, have articles, while others do not. List them as their owners, gazetteers or other authoritativ
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Thank you for your response.
You said/wrote:
1.This is OK; it is a list of nouns:... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
When I first saw it, I expected some kind of order like all uncountable or plural noun forms but the word "restaurant" stuck out as not fitting the pattern I expected.
You said/wrote:
1.This is OK; it is a list of nouns:... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
When I first saw it, I expected some kind of order like all uncountable or plural noun forms but the word "restaurant" stuck out as not fitting the pattern I expected.
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Patterns needn't -- in fact, cannot -- be so strict. 'All nouns' is sufficient parallelism here.
(I don't see, however, that restaurant is the only countable noun-- how about dry dock and chandlery?)
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Patterns needn't -- in fact, cannot -- be so strict. 'All nouns' is sufficient parallelism here.
(I don't see, however, that restaurant is the only countable noun-- how about dry dock and chandlery?)
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Thank you so much.
You said/wrote:
1.This is OK; it is a list of nouns:... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
Also, you said:
Patterns needn't -- in fact, cannot -- be so strict. 'All nouns' is sufficient parallelism here.
Please look at this and tell me if this needs to fol
You said/wrote:
1.This is OK; it is a list of nouns:... offers facilities such as dry dock, boat hire, chandlery, waterfront real estate, and restaurant.
Also, you said:
Patterns needn't -- in fact, cannot -- be so strict. 'All nouns' is sufficient parallelism here.
Please look at this and tell me if this needs to fol
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I think I have seen cases where strict adherence is adhered to
Could you post one for us?-- I mean one that is strict to the point that the natural countability/uncountability seems stretched.
And would you like to try your hand at 'regularizing' your example?-- '... must weigh a number of issues -- trade, defense, strategic alliances, national resources, and human r
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