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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Sentences in dispute

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00I have a couple of sentences in dispute within me, can you settle it for me?02br
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00 1) Why were here and not was?02br
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01i00 The Japanese yen 01u00were02u00 used in those days.02i02br
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002) Why "the" in front of IC Card on the second sentence here?02br
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01i00 The wireless currency system comes in two types: IC Card and corporate cash. 01u00The02u00 IC card operates like an ordinary debit card...02i0-
  

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02i 01font 00 The word 'yen' in English can refer to either 'one yen' or 'many yen'. So, 'was and 'were' are both right, depending on the writer's meaning. 02br 02br 01i 00 The wireless currency system comes in two types: IC Card and corporate cash.

— Clive

  • 02i 01font 00 The word 'yen' in English can refer to either 'one yen' or 'many yen'.
  • So, 'was and 'were' are both right, depending on the writer's meaning.
  • 02br 02br 01i 00 The wireless currency system comes in two types: IC Card and corporate cash.
  • 02i 02br 02br 01font 00I'd prefer to write it as02font 01i 00 01font 00The wireless currency system comes in two types: 01font 00IC Cards02font 00 and corporate cash.
  • 02font 02i 02br 02br 01font 00Best wishes, Clive02font 0-
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0Hi,02br
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00I have a couple of sentences in dispute within me, can you settle it for me?02br
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00 1) Why were here and not was?02br
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01i00 The Japanese yen 01u00were02u00 used in those days.02i01font00 The word 'yen' in English can refer to either 'one yen'
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0Thank you, but a made a small, yet critical, typo. The corrected second sentence looks like this:02br
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01i00The wireless currency system comes in two types: IC Card and corporate cash. The 01u01b00IC Card02b02u00 operates like an ordinary debit card...02i02br
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01i00Will it changer your an
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0Hi,02br
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01i00The wireless currency system comes in two types: IC Card and corporate cash. The 01u01b00IC Card02b02u00 operates like an ordinary debit card...02i02br
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00Yes, it probably does make a difference, as now it's a name.02br
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00Perhaps 01i00The wireles
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0Thank you.02br
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00My question now is why did the writer place "the" in front of a proper name (as we can construe as that by them being capitalized)?02br
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01i01b01u00The02u00 IC Card operates like an ordinary debit card.02b00 02i0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00My question now is why did the writer place "the" in front of a proper name (as we can construe as that by them being capitalized)?02font02br
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01font01b01i01u00The02u00 IC Card operates like an ordinary debit card.02i02b
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0Thank you very much.02br
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00If you will, can you help me to understand why the writer would write like s/he did here in the sentence I slightly altered?02br
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00But the mayor of Tangenia is a prominent 01i00Grand National Party02i00 figure00. (You now know that Grand National Party is a proper party name.)02br
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0Hi,02br
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00If you will, can you help me to understand why the writer would write like s/he did here in the sentence I slightly altered?02br
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00But the mayor of Tangenia is a prominent 01i00Grand National Party02i00 figure00. (You now know that Grand National Party is a proper party name.)01font
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