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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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modifier, article included
Hi,
Please tell me if these sound strange or need more explanation or perhaps are correct as they are.
1. I go to a high school in Tokyo. I went to two different high schools before that.
2. My love is the/his swimming.
Most of times, I hear people say, "I go to school," but can I say "I go to a school"?
I have seen such structures as "I love to watch his cooking of vegetable soup." Does it sound OK when a gerund has an article or possessive in front of it?
Please tell me if these sound strange or need more explanation or perhaps are correct as they are.
1. I go to a high school in Tokyo. I went to two different high schools before that.
2. My love is the/his swimming.
Most of times, I hear people say, "I go to school," but can I say "I go to a school"?
I have seen such structures as "I love to watch his cooking of vegetable soup." Does it sound OK when a gerund has an article or possessive in front of it?
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Hi, Please tell me if these sound strange or need more explanation or perhaps are correct as they are. 1. I go to a high school in Tokyo.
- Hi, Please tell me if these sound strange or need more explanation or perhaps are correct as they are.
- 1.
- I go to a high school in Tokyo.
- I went to two different high schools before that.
- Fine.
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Hi,
Please tell me if these sound strange or need more explanation or perhaps are correct as they are.
1. I go to a high school in Tokyo. I went to two different high schools before that. Fine. Wltth the article, you are talking about places. Without it, you are talking more about your level of education.
2. My love is the/his swimming.Sounds odd. Why not just say 'I love hi
Please tell me if these sound strange or need more explanation or perhaps are correct as they are.
1. I go to a high school in Tokyo. I went to two different high schools before that. Fine. Wltth the article, you are talking about places. Without it, you are talking more about your level of education.
2. My love is the/his swimming.Sounds odd. Why not just say 'I love hi
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I think they're all okay as they are, except, "My love is the swimming." Without context, we'd say, "I love swimming." But you could say, Every summer we vacation at a beach resort which offers tennis, horseback riding, and swimming. My love is the swimming. That is, you've established something for the definite article to refer back to.
Similarly, "I go to a high school in T
Similarly, "I go to a high school in T
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Thank you, all.
My sentence:
I went to two different high schools before that.
Do the words 'two' and 'different', either together or as separate words, make the words 'high school' to mean a place, rather than a level of learning?
My sentence:
I went to two different high schools before that.
Do the words 'two' and 'different', either together or as separate words, make the words 'high school' to mean a place, rather than a level of learning?
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You shouldn''t mean a place or a level of learning with the sentence above. You should write like this: For three years, I have been going three different highschools in the same city. In every school,I had followed a different level When I attended the third school,....
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AnonymousDo the words 'two' and 'different', either together or as separate words, make the words 'high school' to mean a place, rather than a level of learning?I suppose you could look at it that way. But even without those words, I would take high school in I went to high school as a place.
CJ
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Hi,
Yet in a job interview, for example, the interviewer who asks 'Did you go to high school' is not asking about a place, but rather about your level of education.
Best wishes, Clive
Yet in a job interview, for example, the interviewer who asks 'Did you go to high school' is not asking about a place, but rather about your level of education.
Best wishes, Clive
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Interesting point, Clive.
What about if the interviewer asks, "Where did you go to high school?"
Still a level of education, or a place, or ambiguous between the two?
CJ
What about if the interviewer asks, "Where did you go to high school?"
Still a level of education, or a place, or ambiguous between the two?
CJ
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Hi CJ,
I'd take 'where' to refer to 'place' and 'high school' to refer to the level of education.
Clive
I'd take 'where' to refer to 'place' and 'high school' to refer to the level of education.
Clive
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