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Ye Thu Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Creating

1. Visitors are ferried to Madura from the city of Surabaya for a heart-stopping bull race, filled with excitement.
2. Visitors are taken by a ferry from the city of Surabaya to Madura for a heart-stopping bull race, filled with excitement.
Are the above two sentences grmmatical? Thanks a lot.
  

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Yes, they are grammatical .

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Yes, they are grammatical.
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Ye Thutaken by a ferry taken by ferry
What you have is not completely wrong, but we normally leave out the article in expressions that tell how we travel.

by car, by train, by ferry, ...

CJ
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@CalifJim, could you please give few more exceptions where we can leave out articles like the ones you posted?

As far I know, I know only one which is, "I go to college everyday". We don't use a/the before school/college/office in these kinds of sentences. Any more?
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vkr6078@CalifJim, could you please give few more exceptions where we can leave out articles like the ones you posted?
There are far too many to list. I don't know of an exhaustive list that exists anywhere. They have to be learned separately like individual vocabulary items.

CJ
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