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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

lukewarm questions

1. How would you properly answer this type of question?

How do you go to church?

I take ________. (a bus?? the bus?? buses??)

2. Certain phrases are idiomatic like "go to church" and do not need any articles, I think. Can you think of any more words that can go in the place indicated besides this one?

school hospital??

3. Why is there the word "sin" in one sentence and the word "sins" in the other?

It is all sin and the sins you commit are bad.
  

Top answer

1-- I take a bus / the bus. 2-- to school (university, college, kindergarten, etc ), to church, to hospital (for Brits ), to work, to town . That's all I can think of.

— Mister Micawber

  • 1-- I take a bus / the bus.
  • 2-- to school (university, college, kindergarten, etc ), to church, to hospital (for Brits ), to work, to town .
  • That's all I can think of.
  • 3-- Sin can be used either countably or uncountably; here it is used both ways, which is often stylistically effective.
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1-- I take a bus / the bus.

2-- to school (university, college, kindergarten, etc), to church, to hospital (for Brits), to work, to town. That's all I can think of.

3-- Sin can be used either countably or uncountably; here it is used both ways, which is often stylistically effective.
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1. All the following are OK:

I take a bus.
I take the bus.
I take several busses.
I go by bus.

but

I take the busses.

is, well, OK but a bit clumsy. You would be expected to follow with a detailed description of the busses that you take. Yawn.
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